Former School and school-master's house

St Margarets Church Centre, 103, Whitnash Road, Whitnash, CV31 2HB

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391402
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-2005
List Entry Name:: Former School and school-master's house
Statutory Address:: St Margarets Church Centre, 103, Whitnash Road, Whitnash, CV31 2HB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391402
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-2005
List Entry Name:: Former School and school-master's house
Statutory Address 1:: St Margarets Church Centre, 103, Whitnash Road, Whitnash, CV31 2HB

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: St Margarets Church Centre, 103, Whitnash Road, Whitnash, CV31 2HB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Whitnash
National Grid Reference:: SP 32644 63898

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

1208-1/1/10014

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA WHITNASH No 103 (St Margarets Church Centre)

(Formerly listed as Old Whitnash School and school-master's house)

25-OCT-05

II

School and school-master's house. 1860 and 1873. William Davis, architect of the later addition. Red brick in Flemish and English bond with a plain tile roof. Two storey house with a single storey schoolroom, the two ranges set at right angles.

EXTERIOR: The road front has the school master's house at left with a projecting gable which has a canted oriel with a hipped roof at ground floor level and a two-light casement to the first floor, both with metal lattice fenestration with a slit window to the gable. To the right of this and recessed is the school room range and there is a lean-to porch in the re-entrant angle. The schoolroom has two three-light casements with replacement glazing. At right again and slightly recessed is a further bay, added in 1873, to provide a second schoolroom with its own small gabled porch. The right side is the façade of the schoolmaster's house with a projecting gabled wing at left and two bays to the right with a front door. The ground floor has cross windows and the first floor has two-light and single casements, all having metal lattice fenestration. The rear has random fenestration to the house and three-light lattice casements to the schoolroom and the right hand gable end has a large four-light lattice casement and a louvred oculus to the apex.

INTERIOR: The schoolmaster's house has its original ground floor plan. The schoolrooms have their original roofs with chamfered timbers to the trusses and exposed reeds for insulation. There are circular brass heating vents to the floors and fitted cupboards with panelled doors.

This mid-C19 school and schoolmaster's house were mostly built in 1863 before the passing of the 1870 Education Act and as such they are a good example of a Victorian village school built at a relatively early date. They have their original plans and have significant original features, most notably the metal lattice windows.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 492432
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.