Caistor Primary School and School House
CAISTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, SOUTH DALE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063395
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Caistor Primary School and School House
- Statutory Address:
- CAISTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, SOUTH DALE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063395
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Caistor Primary School and School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAISTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, SOUTH DALE
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:
- CAISTOR PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, SOUTH DALE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- West Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caistor
- National Grid Reference:
- TA1176401092
Details
TA 1001-1101
9/84
CAISTOR
SOUTH DALE
Caistor Primary School and School House
II
Primary school, and house, built as the National School 1859-60
by Maugham & Fowler. Brick with ashlar dressings, gabled roofs
with red and black banded plain tiles. One ridge and 2 wall
stacks. Irregular seven bay front, school is single storey, the
school house of 2 storeys. Near the centre of the facade is a
chimney of shouldered form with a Star of David in dark header
bricks above a decorative plaque bearing the motto'Caistor
Parochial School 1859' and a recessed rectangular plaque
inscribed, 'This school was erected by the friends of Mr James
Green Dixon as a memorial of his long and valuable serivices in
the cause of religious education, 1859'. To either side are
single 5 light mullioned horizontally hinged casement windows in
chamfered plain surrounds. To the left a wing projects to the
road and in the gable is a 3 light window in the Gothick style
with 3 roundels over, flanked by brickwork decorated with dark
diapers made up of burnt black headers; the gable has a decorated
verge. Behind a later C19 screen wall, the facade terminates in
a pitched gabled doorway labelled 'Boys': this gable is also
decorated with corbelled bricks. To the right of the central
element, the porch for the Girls side is eaves on to the road and
contains 2 Gothic style quatrefoil windows in its exposed side.
Beyond is the gable end of the school house of 2 storeys with a
plain C20 casement window in a C19 chamfered ashlar surround
beneath relieving arch filled with tumbled brickwork. On the
first floor is a further C20 casement with an earlier ashlar
surround with a pointed relieving arch over a 'tympanum' of
tumbled brickwork. The gable overhangs and is supported on
scrolled timber brackets. There is a low brick wall with plinth
and ashlar coping crowned with decorative ironwork before the
buildings.
Listing NGR: TA1176401092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 196633
- 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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