Former Infants School and Attached House
FORMER INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED HOUSE, COCKSHUT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335433
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Infants School and Attached House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED HOUSE, COCKSHUT LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335433
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Infants School and Attached House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED HOUSE, COCKSHUT LANE
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:
- FORMER INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED HOUSE, COCKSHUT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Bolsover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Langwith
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 53285 71080
Details
SK 57 SW PARISH OF SCARCLIFFE COCKSHUT LANE, WHALEY 5/143 THORNS (West Side) Former Infants School & attached House II
School and headmasters house, now community centre and house. 1883. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone with sandstone dressings. Plain tile hipped and gabled roofs. Ridge cresting. Five prominent stone stacks in the pitch of the roofs. Single storey school and two storey house. The south elevation has a gabled bay with two large cross windows; to the right a porch bay set back, with half-hipped roof and moulded pointed arch. The east elevation has a bay set back to the left with a 4-light casement lighting the porch. To the right are two projecting bays with half-hipped roofs and large rectangular windows with glazing bars. Recessed entrance bay with the roof sweeping down over the single storey porch. The porch is gabled and has a moulded four-centred arch. Pair of plank doors with over light. Flanked by narrow single light windows. To the right again is a broad projecting gabled bay with a pair of tall rectangular windows and three ventilation slits above. Recessed bay with a 3-light casement, then the house has a projecting bay with hipped roof. Large 4-light casement window to the ground floor with segmental relieving arch over a stone lintel. Two-light window above with lintel and relieving arch, rising into a dormer with hipped roof. Recessed entrance bay to the right with a lean-to bracketted hood. Single light window to the right and a 2-light window above. Walls and railings attached to east, enclosing front area. These have chamfered stone copings and are intermittently stepped down and surmounted by iron railings.
Listing NGR: SK5328571080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79312
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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