School House
SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287865
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287865
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE
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:
- SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harberton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 78397 56229
Details
HARBERTON SX7856-SX7956 15/430 HARBERTONFORD School House
GV II
House, formerly schoolmaster's house to adjacent school. The Old School (qv). 1849. Slate rubble with granite dressings. Steeply pitched asbestos slate roof with cross-gables left and right with ornate pierced bargeboards. Rendered chimney stacks on side walls. Tudor style. Plan: 2 principal front rooms with central lobby entrance between with a porch and with service rooms in rear outshut. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 2-window front. Central steeply pitched gabled porch with ornate pierced bargeboards and chamfered 4-centred arch doorway with glazed door. Left and right to ground and first floors chamfered granite mullion 3-light windows with cement weathered lintels. Similar single light attic window in each gable. Rear outshut extended and heightened in C20. Interior not inspected. Note: "in 1849 Richard Browne Esq of Englebourne gave a house for the use of the master" (Whites). Source: White's Directory of 1878.
Listing NGR: SX7839756229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1878)
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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