Old School With Railings, Gate and Gate-piers
OLD SCHOOL WITH RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, EAST WITTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318559
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old School With Railings, Gate and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL WITH RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, EAST WITTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318559
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old School With Railings, Gate and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL WITH RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, EAST WITTON
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 WITH RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, EAST WITTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Witton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 14484 85980
Details
SE 18 NW EAST WITTON TOWN EAST WITTON (south side) 10/11 Old School with railings, gate and gate-piers
GV II
School, now house, and railings, gate and gate-piers. 1817. Sandstone ashlar with herring-bone tooling, stone slate roof, wrought-iron railings. Single storey, 3 bays. Projecting central porch with pointed-arched opening with studded board door, and on sides blind pointed-arched single-lights; crested parapets. School room: flanking the porch, broad pointed-arched windows with intersecting Y-tracery. Ashlar copings, end stack right. Range on left has been raised from 1 to 2 storeys and is not of special interest. In front of school, low ashlar plinth with saddleback section coping on top carrying simple railings with urn finials to standards. Monolithic sandstone gate-piers flanking gate with simple bars and decorative scrollwork in lower half. "The church school was erected by the Earl of Ailesbury in 1817", Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, 1890, p 627.
Listing NGR: SE1448485980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 627
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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