THE OLD BOYS SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED PRIVIES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293905
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: THE OLD BOYS SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED PRIVIES
Statutory Address:: THE OLD BOYS SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED PRIVIES

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Date:: 2002-03-04
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293905
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: THE OLD BOYS SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED PRIVIES
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD BOYS SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED PRIVIES

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Statutory Address:: THE OLD BOYS SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED PRIVIES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Leigh
National Grid Reference:: SK 02329 36066

Details

SK 03 NW LEIGH C.P. CHURCH LEIGH

2/136 The Old Boys School - and Schoolhouse and attached privies

- II Former School and schoolmaster's house, and privies. Dated 1857. By G.E. Street. Red brick with blue brick decoration and ashlar dressings; plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles; brick ridge stack and brick integral lateral stacks. School room aligned east-west with wing projecting from east end of south front to form an L-plan, L-shaped schoolmaster's house attached to west with south projecting wing, and stair turret in angle with schoolroom; privies attached to north-east corner of building; C13 style Gothic details. South elevation: Schoolmaster's house and stair turret to left, schoolroom to right. Schoolmaster's house: 2-storey wing with first floor string and hipped roof, incorporating truncated stair turret to right hand side; roughly 2 bays, windows have colonette mullions and trefoil-headed lights, 3 lights to ground floor left with naturalistic foliage (oak leaves and acorns) to capitals of-mullions, 2 lights to first floor left with stiff leaf capitals to mullions, one light to first floor right, ground floor of stair turret has a 2-light straight -headed window; pointed door to right of centre- and buttress between it and the stair turret. Kitchen range to left with lateral stack partly screened by low wall stepped down to the left. Schoolroom: Gabled wing to right has pointed window with sill band, containing 4 trefoil-headed lights and plate traceried quatrefoil over; main range to left has central gabled dormer window of 3 lights; porch with lean-to roof fills the space between stair turret and right hand wing, board door to left of centre, fixed light windows to each side. C20 single-storey flat-roof brick extension to right. East able: pointed door to left with original hinges and latch, and hood mould stepped down on right to a string course; central pointed window of 4 lights with quatrefoil plate tracery over. North elevation: Schoolmaster's house to right, schoolroom to left. Schoolmaster's house has 2-storey gabled wing to left and single-storey range to right, windows with trefoil- headed lights, those to wing have stiff leaf capitals to colonette mullions, ground floor window has 4 lights, those to first floor left and right have 2 lights, window to right hand range has 3 lights and chamfered mullions; schoolroom has 2 windows, one of 4 lights to left of centre and one of 2 lights to right. Single-storey extension to right of schoolmaster's house. Interior: schoolroom has arch braced collar roof with king post over, supporting a plank ridge, one pair of purlins; internal doors have decorative wrought iron hinges, front door has original latch. An attractive building interesting as an early example of Street's use of polychrome brickwork.

Listing NGR: SK0232936066

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.