School and Assembly Rooms
SCHOOL AND ASSEMBLY ROOMS, ABBEY TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340249
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- School and Assembly Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL AND ASSEMBLY ROOMS, ABBEY TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340249
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- School and Assembly Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL AND ASSEMBLY ROOMS, ABBEY TERRACE
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:
- SCHOOL AND ASSEMBLY ROOMS, ABBEY TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Winchcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 02406 28217
Details
SP 02 28 WINCHCOMBE ABBEY TERRACE (south side) 4/9 School and Assembly Rooms -
GV II
School, later Working Men's Club, now Assembly Rooms and commercial premises. Dated 1857. Limestone ashlar, stone slate roof, coped gables. Modest Victorian Gothic, L-plan with cross wing containing assembly hall, gable to street, left, then cross passage, with main wing parallel to street hav- ing secondary gable near right-hand end; return set to steep slope of ine- yard Street. Gable is one storey with 5-light stepped lancets with cusping under continuous stepped string under oculus with mouchettes ; a plate glass shop front has been cut across the bottom of the main window. Then 1½ storey section with 3 face gables containing 2-light ogee-cusped windows under small oculus, and 3-light cusped below, between two arched entrances; right is gable with 3-light window with stepped drip over wider section weather-stepped outwards containing small 3-light window at pavement level. On return gable 1:3:1 lancets with some cusping under oculus as main gable, all over string stepped before quoins, and 3-light small window and door. Although modified for commercial use, many original interior fittings remain. In addition to its key role visually in Abbey Terrace, this is a building of social significance to Winchcombe. A small faience tablet, left hand end, records that the building treated 809 cases as a hospital between 16 May 1915 and 30 November 1918.
Listing NGR: SP0240428218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133911
- 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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