The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, THE COBBLES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310312
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, THE COBBLES
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06052/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310312
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, THE COBBLES
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 COBBLES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Peover
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 74258 74142
Details
SJ 77 SW NETHER PEOVER C.P. THE COBBLES, LOWER PEOVER
6/16 The Old School House
10/3/53
GV II
Schoolhouse, 1645 and 1710, converted to cottage. English garden wall bond brown brickwork with graded stone-slate roof. 1½ storeys, 2 windows, symmetrical. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels; replaced wooden 3-light leaded casements; plain 3-course band at 1st floor; stone above doorway inscribed Deo et Ecclesiae hanc domunculum in usum scholae humilime dedicat Ri: Comberbach 1710 postea datavit 1645; on cill of dedication stone RESTAURATA 1883. A horizontally sliding sash in lower storey of left gable end and 2 in upper storey, all leaded; mid C20 oriel inserted in right gable. Replaced empty square belfry above right gable; rendered chimney on left gable. Interior, altered during conversion, not inspected. Part of an attractive group around forecourt to churchyard.
Listing NGR: SJ7425774142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57610
- 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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