Lady Hawkins School
LADY HAWKINS SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297585
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Hawkins School
- Statutory Address:
- LADY HAWKINS SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297585
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Hawkins School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADY HAWKINS SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- LADY HAWKINS SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2912456659
Details
KINGTON
SO2956
643-1/1/39
26/07/76
CHURCH ROAD
(South East side)
Lady Hawkins School
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH ROAD
Lady Hawkins Grammar School)
GV
II
School. c1632; altered and extended 1907. By John Abel.
Coursed dressed sandstone; plain tile roof; various early C20
stacks, some grouped and set diagonally. E-shaped on plan. 2
storeys and attic; 3-window range, 1 in each advanced wing:
early C20 windows, under hood moulds; 4 roof-dormers with
casements, under enriched plaster gables. Various entrances
and porches, with C20 doors, in moulded 4-centred arches;
various early C20 lights under hood moulds. Right returned
side of central wing has blocked doorway with chamfered
span-arch lintel. Plaque: "Lady Hawkins Foundress 1632". Early
C20 wing to east. INTERIOR: early C20 open-well staircase with
moulded balusters; early C20 staircase with stick balusters.
C17 mullion and transom window with metal casements, under
hood mould (now under C20 porch). Founded on bequest by
Margaret (nee Vaughan), widow of Sir John Hawkins, d.1620.
Windows raised, roof rebuilt, and east wing added, 1907.
(RCHME: Herefordshire: 91).
Listing NGR: SO2912456659
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385806
- 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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