St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School

St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, Main Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361608
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School
Statutory Address:: St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, Main Street

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Date:: 2002-08-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361608
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School
Statutory Address 1:: St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, Main Street

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:: St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, Main Street

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ashby-de-la-Zouch
National Grid Reference:: SK 32996 18144

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on the 14 October 2022 to update the architect in the description, add source and to reformat the text to current standards

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Blackfordby MAIN STREET (West Side) St Margaret's Church of England Primary School and Schoolhouse attached to St Margaret's Church of England Primary School

GV II

Built 1889. Red brick with blue brick dressings, buttresses between windows. Slate roof with panelled chimney, crested ridge, coped gable ends and centre, white painted, flèche. Side bays advanced, the north western, which forms the schoolhouse, advanced further forward. Two storeys, two windows with roundel above in gable end. Rest, one storey.

Southeastern advanced section has three windows with shield in gable end. Centre has five windows with centre gable. Generally segmental arches but southeastern windows have slightly pointed arches. The school forms a landmark on the crest of a hill beside the church in the village centre.

A newspaper account from the opening of the school in 1889 reports that the architect was Nicholas Joyce of Stafford, and the contractor Thomas Orton of Ashby.

Listing NGR: SK3299618144

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Legacy System number:: 187633
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'‘Blackfordby’' in The Burton Chronicle, , Vol. 2, (12 December 1889), -
Websites
DSA Architect Biography Report: Nicholas Joyce, Dictionary of Scottish Architects,, accessed 13/10/2022 from http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201659

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.