White House School
WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL, 33, CLAYPIT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307362
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- White House School
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL, 33, CLAYPIT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307362
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- White House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL, 33, CLAYPIT 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:
- WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL, 33, CLAYPIT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Urban
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54277 41776
Details
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. CLAYPIT STREET (south-east SJ 5441 side) 8/47 No. 33 (White House School) 1.5.51 (Formerly listed as The - White House) II
House, now school. Early C18, remodelled and enlarged in the arly C19. Red brick, rendered and painted to front. C20 concrete- tile roof with slate roofs to wings. Centre block of 3 storeys and gable-lit attic with slightly set-back early C19 two-storey wings. Centre block with moulded plinth, banded rustication, plat band, panelled end pilaster strips, moulded stone cornice to centre bay, and boxed gutter. Integral brick end stack to left. 1:1:1 bays with central break; first-floor glazing bar sashes and ground- floor wooden cross windows, with stone cills and rusticated voussoirs. Left-hand first-floor window, lower than the rest. Central C20 door with rectangular overlight. Rendered porch with paired pilaster strips supporting frieze and triangular pedimented gable. 4 steps up to door. Right-hand wing with integral brick end stack, first-floor wooden cross window with painted cill and half-glazed 4-panelled door with rectangular overlight. Left-hand wing with first-floor segmental-headed tripartite sash. Rear: centre block with dentil brick eaves cornice and wing with dormer and integral brick end stack. Wings with toothed-brick eaves cornices. Interior: single flight staircase of c.1710-20 to left of entrance, with closed string, balusters consisting of fluted columns on acanthus-wreathed vases, ramped moulded handrail with curved knees, fluted column-on-vase newel posts with octagonal bases and caps, and dado rail; landing balustrade returning on 2 sides. Left-hand ground-floor room, rear corridor and landing with moulded plaster cornices. C18 doors with 6 raised and fielded panels and moulded architraves.
Listing NGR: SJ5427741776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260601
- 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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