The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, 1-5, TOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310688
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, 1-5, TOWN LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310688
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, 1-5, TOWN LANE
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, 1-5, TOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wooburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 90856 87730
Details
WOOBURN TOWN LANE SU 98 NW 6/193 Nos. 1-5 (consec.), The Old School GV II Former school, converted to 5 houses. 1852, altered c.1980. Flint with stone dressings, slate roofs, stone coped gables with moulded kneelers and ornamental gablets. E-plan, with gabled side wings and small parallel block attached to central spur. Formerly one storey, now with inserted attic storey. Diagonal buttresses, stone mullion windows with pointed arched lights. Main rear range has 4 bays of 2-light windows and C20 skylights. Side wings have tall 3-light windows with hoodmoulds stepped over taller central light, and roundels at apex of each gable. Right wing has main window divided into 2 storeys, and has large board door in left side with ornamental hinges and shallow porch with catslide roof on shaped stone brackets. Right side of this wing has 2 gabled semi-dormers with trefoil lights over altered 2-light windows, and C20 lean-to porch at far end. Left wing is slightly lower and has C20 lean-to extension to left with brick dressings and door in left side. Small central block is of one storey and has gabled feature to centre front with buttress, flanking lancets, and blind trefoil inscribed "Feed my lambs." Link spur has C20 doors in each side, the left in original Caernarvon arch.
Listing NGR: SU9085687730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47076
- 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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