The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 26
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340920
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340920
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 26
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 26
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rendcomb
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0173409540
Details
RENDCOMB RENDCOMB
SP 00 NW
6/256 No 26 (The Old School House)
GV II
House, at one time divided into three cottages. Medieval, extended
C17, substantially renovated mid C20. Limestone rubble; concrete
tile roof; stacks restored C20 with dressed stone quoins and brick
stacks. Rectangular (or possibly 'L'-shaped) medieval range
running east - west probably with the parlour at the east end with
hall to the west; C17 extension at right angles running south
gives an 'L'-shaped over all plan. 1 1/2 storeys. South front of
medieval range with projecting lateral stack at centre; C20 four-
light casement with glazing bars to the left C20 three-light
hipped roof dormer above; C20 three-light casement to the right of
the stack at first floor level. C20 part-glazed door below
(inserted C20); gablet with C19 three-light casement to the first
floor, similar 2-light casement to the ground floor. Traces of
possible former gable-end stack at the west gable end, which was
formerly more steeply pitched. Fragments of stonework with carved
spandrels built into the north-wall of the medieval range.
Evidence of possible blocked doorway to the upper floor of the
north facing gable; small blocked window to the east facing gable.
Two-light C20 casements to the ground floor of the C17 range on the
west; C20 three-light half dormer with raking roof to the first
floor. C20 casements and doorways to the rear wall of the C17
range; two C20 two-light stone-mullioned casements to the gable
end facing the road. Projecting lateral stack; gable-end and
axial stacks. Base of possible circular stone stack on axis of the
medieval range.
Interior: flat-chamfered pointed stone doorway towards the east
end of the medieval range. Fireplace with flat-chamfered stone
surround and a deep dressed stone lintel (similar fireplace to the
projecting stack now removed and lintel reused as garden seat).
Upper floor: upper cruck roof of 3 bays (probably reconstructed in
the C16 or early c17) to the hall range, now with ceilings inserted
below. Late medieval fireplace with jamb stones with double flat
chamfers with runout stops at the top; deep dressed stone lintel
supporting a stone slab canopy in the room at the west end of the
hall range. Roof of the north-south range containing evidence of
early roof trusses with flat-chamfered bracing to the collar beams.
(V.C.H. Vol VII, Glos, p219; and photograph in Particulars of sale
of Rendcomb Park, 1913, Glos Colln. R.V 248.1) Property of
Rendcomb College.
Listing NGR: SP0173409540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1981), 219
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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