The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381985
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381985
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD 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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellesbourne and Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28488 53116
Details
WELLESBOURNE
SP25SE WALTON
1901-1/5/185 The Old School
GV II
School, now house. c1860. By Sir George Gilbert Scott. For Sir
John Mordaunt. Brick with ashlar dressings; gabled slate roofs
with truncated brick cross-axial stacks.
PLAN: single storey with attic; 2-storey cross-wing to each
end.
EXTERIOR: flush bands of ashlar and brick and ashlar coped
gables; centre has roof carried down over verandah on posts
with cusped braces. 2 entrances under verandah have banded
segmental-pointed arches flanking 2 lights with ashlar
lintels. Wings have windows with stop-chamfered mullions and
banded voussoirs, most with leaded glazing; wing to left has
segmental-pointed head to 3-light window with banded tympanum;
first floor has similar 2-light window; wing to right has 2
pointed 2-light windows with roundels to tympanum; round
window above has plate tracery with 4 roundels. Central gabled
dormer has 2 lights under lintel band and gabled bellcote;
stack to right and to left wing.
Rear has similar details: windows to centre with mullions and
banded voussoirs; and one to wing to right over lean-to
outshut; wing to left has straight-headed mullioned window to
lower gabled wing; central flat-roofed 2-light dormer probably
later. Small later gabled addition to right end.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of a group of estate cottages and other buildings.
(Hamilton, E: The Old House at Walton: Salisbury: 1988-: 232).
Listing NGR: SP2848853116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482350
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hamilton, E, The Old House at Walton, (1988), 232
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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