Old School
OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308534
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308534
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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:
- OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Boston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Butterwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TF3859344395
Details
TF 34 SE BUTTERWICK SCHOOL LANE
(east side)
12/19 Old School
(formerly listed as
19.11.51 The Girls' school)
G.V. II
Former school, now village hall. Founded 1665, extended and
altered 1878 and C20. Red brick, ashlar dressings, with raised
brick coped tumbled gable to left and moulded kneeler; fishscale
tiled roofs. L-plan. Single storey, altered 4 bay front with
brick plinth and band rising over formal central door and
flanking windows in Fen Artisan Mannerist style. Dogtooth eaves
course. Central C19 cross mullioned window flanked by single 3
light mullioned windows with ashlar surrounds, which are in part
original. Latticed cast iron casements. Above C19 2 light
shallow fixed lights. To left a lower C19 single bay extension
also with latticed casements. To right is a slightly advanced
gabled bay of 1878 containing a triple mullioned window. In the
left hand later gable a shield bears the date of 1659. To the
rear a projecting chimney stack has a C19 octagonal ashlar stack.
It is flanked by single 2 and 3 light mullioned windows matching
those to the front. The rear range is dated 1878 in raised
brickwork. The school, originally for Boys, was endowed by
Anthony Pinchbeck, yeoman of Butterwick. Source: Thompson.
History of Boston.
Listing NGR: TF3859344395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191933
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, , History of Boston, ()
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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