Old School
OLD SCHOOL, LOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296548
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL, LOW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296548
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL, LOW 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 SCHOOL, LOW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nunnington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 66701 79421
Details
NUNNINGTON LOW STREET SE 664790 (north side) 9/59 Old School
GV II
School. 1869 on datestone; C20 extension. Hammered sandy limestone on chamfered plinth with ashlar quoins and dressings; extension of red brick in English garden wall bond and stone. Slate roof; corrugated iron roof to extension. Cruciform on plan with lean-to in re-entrant angle at rear; extension at rear added. 1-storey, 1-window projecting cross gable in the centre flanked by 1-storey, 1-window bays. Entrance in right return. Central cross gable contains 3-light window of stepped lancets beneath coved hoodmould on corbel heads. Roundel in moulded surround above, inscribed:
In Memory of William Rutson Esq 1869
Flanking bays have lancets beneath hoodmoulds on foliate corbel stops. Eaves guttering supported on lion mask clamps. Coped gables terminating in gablets and elaborately shaped kneelers. Crested ridge tiles. Fleur-de-lys finials to gables. Left return: gabled bay with single-storey lean-to at left. Stepped lancet window and gable-end roundel containing a blind quatrefoil. 2-light chamfered mullion window in lean-to. Right return: gable repeats that in the left return. Bay at right contains nail-studded board door in double-chamfered quoined opening beneath pointed hoodmould on foliate stops. Uncarved escutcheon over door. C20 extension at rear not of special interest. Building unoccupied at time of resurvey.
Listing NGR: SE6670379421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329322
- 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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