Former School and School House
FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389365
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former School and School House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389365
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former School and School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
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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:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
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 80450 41167
Details
891/0/10022 OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
18-JUL-01 Former school and school house
II
School and School House, now parish hall and dwelling. Built 1856-7. Possibly designed by Radcliffe Trust surveyor Charles Couchman of Birmingham. Coursed squared local limestone, limestone dressings, slate roofs with ornamental blue tile ridges and stone internal, ridge and lateral stacks. School, now hall, has L-shaped plan. School House, now dwelling to west side has 3-unit plan and 2 storeys with front facing west and back directly against school.
EXTERIOR: North gable ends of School and School House face Old Wolverton Road to north. School to left has large tripartite window. Central light has painted arched head rising above outer lights into pointed arch over whole window. School House to right has blank window to ground floor with rock-faced, flint-arched stone head and 2-light casement window to first floor above, with similar head. School House front, facing west, has gabled stone porch to left of centre, 3-light casement windows to ground floor and 2-light casement window to first floor right, all with flat-arched stone heads. School has gabled stone porch to left, east side projecting flush with gable end and doorway to east with pointed arched head. To left of porch is 4-light, diamond-leaded wood mullion and transom window with flat-arched stone head. Wing projects to rear left with tripartite window to east gable end, similar to that to front gable, and stone bellcote to apex of gable. Large internal stone stack in angle with main range with offsets. The building has stone-coped gables with kneelers and chamfered stone plinth.
INTERIOR: School has open collar truss roof.
HISTORY: Built by the Radcliffe Trust for the children of their Wolverton estate tenants and farm labourers.
SOURCES: Ivor Gues, Dr. John Radliffe and his Trust, London, 1991, 422, 510.
Listing NGR: SP8045141166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gues, I, Dr John Radcliffe and his Trust, (1991), 422, 510
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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