National School
NATIONAL SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383699
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- National School
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383699
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- National School
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL 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:
- NATIONAL SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Caynham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 54959 73067
Details
CAYNHAM
SO57SW National School
482-1/9/112
15/03/74
II
School. Dated 1834. Coursed stone rubble. Slate roof with
bargeboards with pierced pendant fleur-de-lys decoration,
small bell-turret with pyramid slate roof and finial. Simple
single-storey 3-bay hall.
EXTERIOR: gable front with inserted first-floor mullion window
over recessed inscribed stone tablet with hoodmould. Doorway
with chamfered reveals, cambered arched head and stepped
hoodmould, beaded boarded door. Left side: 2 mullion and
transom windows with multi-pane lights under keyed stone
lintels with stepped hoodmoulds, flanking central 4/4 sash,
all with tiled sills. Opposite side masked by C20
prefabricated extensions. Rear gable: large 2-mullion and
transom window with timber lintel and vestigial hoodmould.
INTERIOR: 2 king-post trusses with hammerbeam bracing. Double
purlin roof with boarded ceiling. Inscription on front gable
tablet: CAYNHAM/NATIONAL SCHOOL/ERECTED/1834
Listing NGR: SO5495973067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484131
- 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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