OLD SCHOOL WITH RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS

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:: OLD SCHOOL WITH RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, EAST WITTON

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Date:: 2003-01-24
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 321633
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 627

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.