The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, 1-4, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382385
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, 1-4, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382385
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, 1-4, HIGH STREET
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, 1-4, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15067 65792
Details
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
SP1565 HIGH STREET
652-1/11/114 (West side)
15/03/77 Nos.1-4 The Old School
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET, Henley-In-Arden
(West side)
The Old School)
GV II
School, now 4 houses. 1883 with 1980s alterations. Brick laid
to English bond with limestone ashlar dressings; machine-tile
roofs with decorative cresting and finials; central tile-hung
bell-turret and brick lateral stacks. Gothic-Revival style.
H-plan.
EXTERIOR: single-storey; symmetrical 5-window range. Gabled
centre and ends, the ends break forward. Plinth and off-set
buttresses; flush sill band. Central gable is coped with
kneelers; end gables have moulded verges, banding and slits.
Gabled centre has paired pointed entrances with half-glazed
doors with margin lights, tall fanlights with small-paned
glazing and small round window above, all under trefoil
relieving arch with hood. Centre has 3 windows to each side
with small-paned glazing over larger 9-pane glazing; some late
C20 skylights.
Wings have pairs of pointed windows with hoods and 6/9-pane
glazing and small-paned glazing to arches; wing to left has
stack to angle with fillets and cornice. Bell-turret has open
timber structure with swept pyramidal roof; bases of
ventilation louvres to left and right.
Right return to School Lane has gabled entrance with moulded
verges and 3 stepped lights over pointed arch dying into
splayed jambs, battened door with strap hinges; stack to left
has diagonal shaft; small-paned window to left, 3
segmental-headed windows to right.
Left return to Milking Lane has gable over 2 pointed windows;
entrance to left has C20 door. C20 window to end of rear wing
with casement above.
Rear has 2 rear stacks and hipped projection to longer wing to
left.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Has group value with the other items in High Street.
(Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206).
Listing NGR: SP1506765792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 206
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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