Village Hall and Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273409
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Village Hall and Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14194/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273409
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Village Hall and Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- VILLAGE HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hittisleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7320695020
Details
SX 79 NW
5/162
HITTISLEIGH
HITTISLEIGH CROSS
Village Hall and Old School House
GV
II
Hittisleigh village hall and adjoining house, formerly school and master's house.
Late C19. Brick with some granite dressings; brick stacks; red tile hanging and
red tile roof. School comprises large block facing south-east with forward
projecting wing near left (south-west) end and master's house as crosswing
projecting forward from right end. High single storey school buildings and 2
storey master's house with stack between the two. Arts and Crafts style. School
hall has 2 tall square-headed windows with timber mullion and transoms. Half-
hipped gable end of school wing includes arched window with brick pointed arch
interrupted by blocks of granite. 3-light mullioned window with outer lights given
pointed heads. Left gable end of school has C20 entrance lobby in front. Above 2
mullion-and-central-transom windows with heavy pointed glazing bars. Above a
central ogival light and at apex the roof extended on brackets to shelter bell.
School roof includes bands and lozenge shapes of fish-scale clay tiles and crested
ridge tiles. Front gable end of master's house has ground floor 3-light mullion-
and-transom window below slate-hung tympanum of arched head, 2 lancets to first
floor and slate hung top part of gable. At right corner a buttress breaks forward.
On right-hand return (north-east) house door is at left end. It has ornate strap
hinges and segmental-headed arch. To right stair turret projects square at ground
floor level, has granite broaches at first floor level to splayed corners of slate
hung first floor with hipped roof. 3-light window at right end in segmental-headed
arch. Disused stack serving first floor projects from wall on stone corbels to
left of stair turret. Old school house has C20 replacement tile roof. In both
buildings granite blocks are used in arched apertures and as springers for
segmental arches, and all windows are timber. A chamfered plinth and low band of
diagonally-set bricks run round the entire buildings.
Listing NGR: SX7320695020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445093
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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