The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, NESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387693
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, NESTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387693
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, NESTON ROAD
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, NESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 31235 74317
Details
NESTON
SJ3174 NESTON ROAD, Burton 794-1/11/1 (East side) 27/12/62 The Old School (Formerly Listed as: NESTON ROAD, Burton (East side) Bishop Wilson School)
II
School with schoolmaster's cottage attached, now one dwelling. Dated 1724; later alterations and additions, including rear extension of 1890. Brown brick in English Garden Wall bond with red sandstone dressings; slate roof with coped gables and single gable stack of brick. EXTERIOR: school is 1 storey, 5 bays, end bays gabled and projecting; schoolmaster's cottage to left is 1 bay, 1 storey and attic. Cottage has a projecting stone plinth, flush quoins, projecting band over ground floor window and ogee moulded eaves cornice. Ground floor window is a multi-paned horizontal sliding sash under a brick flat arch with stone keyblock. The attic window is a 2-light casement with glazing bars in a flat roofed half dormer with side pilasters. Between the windows there is an ogee-topped tablet bearing the date 1724. School end bays project forward and have coped gables with kneelers: centre bays surmounted by shallow coped parapet fronting a wide lead gutter. Left end bay has a boarded door under segment-arched lintel with turning piece: right end bay has a large casement divided into 9 panes under projecting band with key: both gables have moulded eaves cornices broken by cross-glazed oval windows beneath floating cornices. Centre bays windows are tall, the outer ones of 15 panes, the centre one of paired 10-pane lights, all in keyed raised surrounds and with transoms continued across full width of front and as raised band. Right return: stepped lancets in gable wall. INTERIOR: right room has both strutted and king post trusses with cambered tie beams: left room firebeam and exposed ceiling beam. Cottage has C18 hob-grate in bedroom, also wide boarded door. HISTORY: the building was founded by Bishop Robert Wilson and formerly known as Bishop Wilson School.
Listing NGR: SJ3123574317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475679
- 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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