Old Village School House
OLD VILLAGE SCHOOL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314859
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Old Village School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD VILLAGE SCHOOL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314859
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Village School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD VILLAGE SCHOOL HOUSE, 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 VILLAGE SCHOOL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57889 06874
Details
BENTLEY WITH ARKSEY HIGH STREET SE 50 NE (west side), Arksey
7/52 Old Village School 10.12.59 House (formerly listed as Village School) GV II School house now youth club. 1683, altered and extended in C19. For Sir George Cooke (d1683). Rubble magnesian limestone, Welsh slate roof. 1 storey, 5 bays; wing to rear right. Large quoins. Blocked central doorway with bolection-moulded surround, pulvinated frieze and broken segmental pediment (formerly with cartouche in tympanum). Other bays have recessed, chamfered surrounds to tall 2-light mullioned windows with C20 casements and trefoil-head lights beneath square heads. Continuous cyma-moulded dripmould. Shaped kneelers and triangular gable copings. Tall rendered end stacks with cornices. Rear: one window as front, otherwise altered; wing on left has 5-light window in its return and tall external stack in angle with main range.
"Sir George Cooke, Bart. gave by his will £200, and two cottages, for building a fair school-house". (Camden Britannica, page 849, cited by Miller p228).
D. Hey, Buildings of Britain 1550-1750, Yorkshire, 1981, p134 (plate).
E. Miller, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, 1804.
Listing NGR: SE5788806877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334916
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Miller, E, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, (1804)
Hey, D, Buildings of Britain 1550-1750 in Yorkshire Buildings of Britain 1550-1750, (1981), 134
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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