Old School House (Now Braithwell Darby and Joan Club and Wrvs Rooms)
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE (NOW BRAITHWELL DARBY AND JOAN CLUB AND WRVS ROOMS), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314836
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House (Now Braithwell Darby and Joan Club and Wrvs Rooms)
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE (NOW BRAITHWELL DARBY AND JOAN CLUB AND WRVS ROOMS), HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314836
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House (Now Braithwell Darby and Joan Club and Wrvs Rooms)
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE (NOW BRAITHWELL DARBY AND JOAN CLUB AND WRVS ROOMS), HIGH 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:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE (NOW BRAITHWELL DARBY AND JOAN CLUB AND WRVS ROOMS), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Braithwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 53105 94557
Details
BRAITHWELL HIGH STREET SK59SW (east side)
8/4 Old School House (now Braithwell Darby and Joan Club and WRVS rooms)
II
School house now meeting rooms. Dated 1693, altered. Founder John Bosvile. Irregularly-coursed limestone rubble, pantile roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays; 1- storey wing to rear left. Rusticated ashlar quoins. Central door in raised and chamfered ashlar surround. Flanking bays have later sashes with horizontal glazing bars. 1st floor: band beneath similar windows; central ashlar plaque inscribed: 'In / Dei gloriam / Patriae Commodum / Hancce Scholam / Fundavit / Johan Bosvile / 1693' Shaped kneelers, roll-moulded gable copings; rebuilt brick end stacks. Rear: on left of wing are C20 casements in ashlar surrounds to each floor (the lower window now with concrete lintel). Right return: sundial set in wall on left has iron gnomen and shield with lozenges and stars; blocked ashlar window surround on right. John Bosvile, a tanner of Wardsend in the Parish of Ecclesfield, gave a plentiful endowment to the school which Miller (p248) notes was much reduced by fraud and mismanagement. E. Miller, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, 1804.
Listing NGR: SK5310594557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334779
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Miller, E, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, (1804)
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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