The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308384
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308384
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hockworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0395119501
Details
ST 01 NW
4/81
HOCKWORTHY
HOCKWORTHY
The Old School
GV
II
School and masters house. Circa 1870. Snecked local grey-coloured limestone with
ashlar quoins and cream-coloured sandstone detail; grey limestone stacks with
sandstone octagonal chimneyshafts; slate roof.
Plan: T-shaped building. The main block, that is the school, faces south; the
master's house is a 2-room plan crosswing with 2 projecting outer lateral stacks.
The school is mostly single storey but as high as the 2-storey masters' house.
Exterior: 3:2-window window front of double-lancet windows with transoms and the
first floor one in the gable-end of the masters house to right, the first floor
window is similar but with a quatrefoil light over making an Early Decorated plate
tracery window. The same arrangement of 2 ground floor double lancets and first
floor plate-tracery window in the left gable end. Most of the windows still contain
rectangular panes of leaded glass but some are replaced by plate glass. The roofs
of the main block and masters' house crosswing are gable-ended with shaped kneelers
and coping and the roof is steeply pitched. It includes a lead lantern surmounted by
a wrought iron weathervane over the school. The entrances to both school and
masters house are to rear through a lean to porch in the angles of the wings.
Interior: not inspected.
This relatively unmodernised building alongside the churchyard contributes to the
scattered but unspoilt centre of Hockworthy parish which includes several other
important listed buildings.
Listing NGR: ST0395119501
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95931
- 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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