'the Fishing Post' and the Old Schoolhouse
THE FISHING POST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309733
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 'the Fishing Post' and the Old Schoolhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE FISHING POST
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309733
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 'the Fishing Post' and the Old Schoolhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FISHING POST
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE
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 FISHING POST
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skerne and Wansford
- National Grid Reference:
- TA0626556727
Details
TA 05 NE
7/93
SKERNE
WANSFORD
´The Fishing Post´ and The Old Schoolhouse
GV
II
School and master's house, now a single house. 1877. By G E Street for
Sir Tatton Sykes. Red brick with stone dressings, plain tiles. Irregular
plan of main range with 4 projecting gabled wings of varying size and
height. School, to left and to rear, in Gothic revival style, master's
house in Jacobean domestic style. Boarded door in timber architrave with
segmental head to left, similar door in pointed opening with continuous
segmental head to left, similar door in pointed opening with continuous
chamfer to right. 3-light window with plate tracery under segmental head to
left, 4-light mullioned window with king mullion to right. 3-light square-
headed window with mullions and 2 single-light square-headed windows to
centre. First floor has 2-light casement windows, with lead cames,
throughout. Shaped tile cladding to gables, axial stacks with stripwork and
bands, house surmounted by a fleche with cross finial to school roof.
Outbuildings to right not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TA0626556727
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166952
- 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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