CAMPTON LOWER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE

CAMPTON LOWER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, RECTORY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321801
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: CAMPTON LOWER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE
Statutory Address:: CAMPTON LOWER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, RECTORY ROAD

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Date:: 2001-11-01
Reference:: IOE01/04580/29
Rights:: © Mr Derek E. Wharton. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321801
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: CAMPTON LOWER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CAMPTON LOWER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, RECTORY ROAD

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:: CAMPTON LOWER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, RECTORY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Campton and Chicksands
National Grid Reference:: TL 12834 38143

Details

TL1258 CAMPTON RECTORY ROAD (South Side)

10/15 Campton Lower School and Schoolhouse

- II

School and schoolhouse. 1875. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Clay tile roof with bands of fishscale tiles and ridge cresting. Complex plan, the school to the S single-storeyed, the house to the N rising to the same height but of one storey and attics, the N blocks narrower with more steeply pitched roofs. Total structure is roughly L-shaped. Road elevation, school to LH: LH projecting gable has 2 2-light mullion and transom windows and small paired lights to apex. RH block has plank door with strap hinges under cambered head, 5-light mullioned window, and square bell-cote with sprocketed pyramidal roof. Schoolhouse to RH: LH projecting gable has canted bay to ground floor and 2-light window above. RH block has plank door within angle under hipped tiled hood, 2-light window to ground floor, and gabled dormer above with 2- light window. All windows mullioned. Paired octagonal stacks with moulded cornices to rear of RH block and to side of LH block at junction with school. All gables have stone coping.

Listing NGR: TL1283438143

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Legacy System number:: 37569
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.