Schoolhouse and Old School With Attached Wall and Outbuildings
SCHOOLHOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDINGS, HOWICK VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371188
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Schoolhouse and Old School With Attached Wall and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOLHOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDINGS, HOWICK VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371188
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Schoolhouse and Old School With Attached Wall and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOLHOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDINGS, HOWICK VILLAGE
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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:
- SCHOOLHOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDINGS, HOWICK VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Longhoughton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 25661 17797
Details
NU 2517 LONGHOUGHTON HOWICK VILLAGE
17/140 Schoolhouse and Old School, with attached wall and outbuildings GV II
Former school and master's house, with yard walls and outbuildings to rear. House late C18, enlarged and school added in mid-C19. Squared tooled stone, C19 parts with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roofs.
House 2 storeys, 1 + 2 bays, the lower left part C18. Right part has shallow flat-topped porch, with flush-panelled door under cornice, in left bay; left part has paired 12-pane sashes on ground floor (right is C19 insertion) and single similar window above. Both parts have pitched gable copings on moulded kneelers; stepped-and-corniced end stacks.
Single-storey 3-bay school to left; paired 12-pane sashes except for 8-pane sash in right end bay; between left bays a projecting stepped chimney breast carrying stepped-and-corniced stack. Left end gable has pitched coping on moulded kneelers, and corbelled-out bellcote with shouldered arch above blind slit; roll-moulded finial. Far left is lower pent porch with 2-pane sash and boarded door to rear.
Left return of school shows paired 12-pane sashes in stop-chamfered surrounds. Right return of house shows 12-pane sashes. Rear elevation: house has small yard with flat-coped wall and boarded door; small outbuilding at right of yard has small-paned casements in outer walls. School shows vertical-panelled door in stop-chamfered alternating-block surround.
Historical note: Magdalen Grey d.1709 left funds towards the maintenance of a school at Howick, further endowed by Sir Henry Grey c.1749. The older part of the house is said to have housed the schoolroom on the ground floor and master's dwelling above.
Listing NGR: NU2566117797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237031
- 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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