The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, LADYWELL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385198
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, LADYWELL
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- Date:
- 2004-07-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/12628/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385198
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, LADYWELL
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, LADYWELL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55624 34158
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE LADYWELL, Pilton
684-1/2/329 (East side)
05/08/93 The Old School
GV II
School, now art gallery and studios. Dated 1840; enlarged.
Stone rubble, squared in parts; red brick dressings at rear.
Slated roof. Late C19 red brick chimney at rear. A long range
with cross-wing at left-hand end; with projecting entrance
porch adjoining wing. Porch and cross-wing probably added in
1860s or 1870s.
2 storeys with garret 4-window range. The original long range
has 3 windows per storey, all with flat arches containing
well-cut voussoirs of brown, purple and grey-green local
stone. All but one have 3-light wood casements with thin
chamfered mullions; 4 panes per light with horizontal glazing
bars in outer lights, except that middle upper-storey window
has been altered to inert opening casements; all the middle
lights have been altered in this way. Upper-storey left-hand
window has 3-paned sashes. Between storeys is a stone plaque
inscribed 'PILTON SCHOOL A.D. 1840.'
The right-hand ground-storey window has been a doorway at some
time and may have been the original entrance. Porch has
doorway with moulded limestone surround and pointed arch;
above it a stone shield with monogram AA. Upper-storey window
of limestone with 3 Tudor-arched lights and straight hood
mould. Crenellated parapet designed to resemble a Dutch gable.
Wing has moulded pointed-arched doorway to left. 2-light
limestone window to right, another of 5 lights in 2nd storey,
and a third of 3 lights in gable; all have Tudor-arched lights
and straight hoodmoulds, the hoodmould of the gable window
rising to enclose a blank shield. Gable has moulded coping and
kneelers; apex has 3 panels with cinquefoiled, Tudor-arched
heads. At right-hand end of the building is a stone Tudor
archway leading to an external staircase. INTERIOR not
inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5562434158
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485660
- 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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