Wyvern Nursery
WYVERN NURSERY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389358
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wyvern Nursery
- Statutory Address:
- WYVERN NURSERY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389358
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wyvern Nursery
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYVERN NURSERY, CHURCH 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:
- WYVERN NURSERY, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolverton and Greenleys
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81318 41017
Details
891/0/10015 CHURCH STREET
18-JUL-01 Wyvern Nursery
GV II
Nursery School, originally built as an elementary school for boys. 1896 with some C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond and hipped and gabled slate roofs with ornamental tile ridges and terracotta finials to gables.
PLAN: Parallel, single-storey classroom blocks divided by corridor.
ELEVATION: Main front faces Church St. to north. Symmetrical 14-bay elevation of segmental-headed windows. End bays are recessed. Elevation is articulated by three pairs of windows to centre, and to left and right of centre under pedimented gables. Gables frame terracotta plaque that to centre lettered in capitals, BOYS SCHOOL, those to outer gables dated 1896. Segmental-headed doors to side elevations. Rear block is somewhat higher than front block and has 12-bay elevation to playground articulated in a similar way to front. Chamfered brick plinths, corbelled brick eaves and gable pediments.
INTERIOR: Central corridor with wide arched openings in brick interior walls to classrooms that run parallel to each side with tall exterior windows. Herringbone wood floors.
HISTORY: Built by the London and North-Eastern Railway Company, assisted by Radcliffe Trust and a 'few of the townspeople who subscribed to the voluntary rate,' and an important testimony to a railway company's concern for families of its employees.
Group value with Wyvern First School.
SOURCES: The Bucks Standard, Saturday July 11, 1896.
Listing NGR: SP8131941016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488000
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Bucks Standard in The Bucks Standard, (1896), July 11
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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