The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307746
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307746
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD 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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acton Burnell
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5301402000
Details
ACTON BURNELL C.P., ACTON BURNELL,
SJ 50 SW,
6/14
The Old School House
GV
II
Shown on O.S. map as school.
School, now house. 1815 with additions of circa 1845. Rendered and
lined as ashlar, probably over coursed sandstone rubble; hipped slate
roof. Gothick style. One storey. High plinth, projecting end piers,
external brick end stack to left and brick ridge stack to rear wing.
1:4 bays; three windows to right with intersecting Gothick tracery and
raised architraves with impost blocks and keystones, that in centre a
taller C20 wooden replacement with blocked architrave and larger
keystone; mid-C19 gabled porch projecting at right-angles to left has
cast iron Gothick window to front and segmental-headed boarded door in
right-hand return front with side-light to right and chamfered reveals.
Cast iron Gothick window in right-hand return front of main block.
Mid-C19 one-storey and attic and 2-storey wing at rear. Interior:
roof with arch-braced collar trusses and king posts above. V.C.H.,
Vol. VIII, p.6.
Listing NGR: SJ5301402000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 6
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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