Former Parish School and Wall Attached
FORMER PARISH SCHOOL AND WALL ATTACHED, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311192
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish School and Wall Attached
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PARISH SCHOOL AND WALL ATTACHED, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311192
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish School and Wall Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER PARISH SCHOOL AND WALL ATTACHED, CHURCH STREET
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:
- FORMER PARISH SCHOOL AND WALL ATTACHED, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Etherley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16606 28365
Details
ETHERLEY CHURCH STREET NZ 12 NE (East side) High Etherley 5/12 Former parish school and wall attached
GV II
Parish school, now parish hall. Dated 1833. Paid for by Henry Stobart, coalowner. Extended 1869. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof. Tudor style. One storey, 5 bays and long right extension; set-back left wall. Symmetrical main block has central gabled porch; boarded door, with elaborate iron hinges, in chamfered segmental- headed surround; stepped dripmould containing blocked 2-light window over panel with date; coped gable parapet on string; gabled bellcote. 4-light windows under dripmoulds in flanking bays; outer bays project under gables and have stepped 4-light windows with transoms to inner lights; cross-shaped vents in gable peaks. Blank right extension to double door at left end under flat stone lintel. Low-pitched roofs have moulded kneelers. 2 low ridge chimneys, the left truncated and the right with double-chamfered coping.
High yard wall set-back at left has gable over boarded door in deeply-chamfered surround; flat stone coping.
Listing NGR: NZ1660628365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111377
- 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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