Eden School
EDEN SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335511
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Eden School
- Statutory Address:
- EDEN SCHOOL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335511
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Eden School
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDEN SCHOOL
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:
- EDEN SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanwix Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 41342 57024
Details
STANWIX RURAL RICKERBY NY 45 NW
5/100 Eden School (formerly 1.4.57 listed as Rickerby House)
II
School formerly house. Probably 1835 for George Head Head. Calciferous sandstone ashlar walls, slate roof with lead hips, ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays to entrance facade. Tetrastyle entrance porch with Greek Doric columns, moulded entablature, dentilled cornice. Moulded window surrounds, projecting hood with scrolled brackets over ground floor windows and above entrance. Squared surround tripartite entrance with 6-panel door flanked by side lights with curvilinear glazing bars. String course, moulded and dentilled cornice. Garden front of 5 bays with side wings of 2 bays each: hexastyle portico. Listing includes 1879 extension with 3 storey tower, built for Miles McInnes and single storey 4 bay extension of brick facing garden with niches between sash windows. Interior restored 1982, includes moulded plaster ceilings, carved and moulded marble fireplaces and panelled doors. Built around and encasing earlier brick house of early or mid C18 (discovered during restoration). See, Life of Miles McInnes, 1910.
Listing NGR: NY4134257024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77681
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Life of Miles McInnes, (1910)
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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