The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064286
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064286
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, MAIN 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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- North Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blankney
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 06784 60185
Details
BLAKNEY MAIN STREET TF 0660 (east side) 7/7 The Old school
GV II School, now parish room. 1848 by W A Nicholson. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with ashlar coped gables and moulded kneelers. A pair of octagonal Tudor style white brick ridge stacks. White brick plinth. T- plan. Single storey. Main, east front, 5 bays with off-centre doorway, with cont;emporary door, and ashlar moulded 4 centred arched surround. To the left, three 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows topped with curved gables which project through the eaves and are surmounted by 3 ball finials each. To the right a slightly projecting single gabled bay, with a large 3-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion windows under a dripmould. The north 2 bay front, has another 4 centred arched doorway to the left and to the right a large 4-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion square bay window with stone hipped roof. Above, on the roof is a wooden bell canopy with a pyramidal fishscale tile hipped roof. This building is part of the complete estate village erected by the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall.
Listing NGR: TF0678460185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358278
- 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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