Old Warden Lower School
OLD WARDEN LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274649
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Warden Lower School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD WARDEN LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06253/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274649
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Warden Lower School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD WARDEN LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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 WARDEN LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Warden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13666 43773
Details
TL 1243 OLD WARDEN HIGH STREET (West Side)
12/152 Old Warden Lower School
GV II
School. 1874-75, by Henry Clutton for the Shuttleworth Estate (P Hunting "Henry Clutton's country houses", Architectural History, vol. 26, 1905, p.l05). Yellow-brick with stone dressings. Clay tile roof. Large rectangular block with gabled roof, with single storey entrance blocks to both gable ends. Asymmetrical front elevation. 2 4-stage projecting chimney stacks (RH one has top stage removed), bottom 2 stages combined with buttresses. LH stack is flanked by 2 4-light mullion and transom windows, RH stack is flanked by 2 single-light windows with transoms. 2 entrance blocks have plank doors. Openings have simple chamfered surrounds. Brick dentil cornice to eaves, at sill level, and to chimneys at transom level and top. Square bell-cote to LH has tile-hung base, timber supports with curved braces, fishscale edged louvres, and pyramidal roof with sprocketed eaves. Entrance blocks have rounded corners and plain parapets. Gable ends have oeil-de-boeuf window with semi-circular dripstone to attic.
Listing NGR: TL1366643773
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414665
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural History in Architectural History, (1983), 103
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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