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Formerly The Old School

A Grade II Listed Building in Warkworth, Northumberland

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Latitude: 55.3485 / 55°20'54"N

Longitude: -1.6087 / 1°36'31"W

OS Eastings: 424911

OS Northings: 606125

OS Grid: NU249061

Mapcode National: GBR K66L.JJ

Mapcode Global: WHC1T.8T6M

Plus Code: 9C7W89XR+CG

Entry Name: Formerly The Old School

Listing Date: 1 September 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1041737

English Heritage Legacy ID: 237146

ID on this website: 101041737

Location: The Butts, Northumberland, NE65

County: Northumberland

Civil Parish: Warkworth

Built-Up Area: Warkworth

Traditional County: Northumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland

Church of England Parish: Warkworth St Lawrence

Church of England Diocese: Newcastle

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NU 2406
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WARKWORTH
THE BUTTS (East side)
Old School East and Old School West

(Formerly listed as The Old School)

GV
II

Former National School. Founded 1824, extended by the addition of school rooms for infants and girls 1852. Roughly-squared stone with cut quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles. Cruciform plan. Tudor style. Single storey, 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 bays. Projecting gabled centre has chamfered plinth and five-light window with hoodmould stepped up over the taller transomed central light; slit above. Stepped-and-corniced stack on left return. Flanking parts have central stepped stacks, upper parts rebuilt, between pairs of two- and three-light mullioned windows; left end has corbelled-out gabled bellcote with pointed arch and moulded finial. At each end a lower porch with a vertical-panelled door under a flat-pointed head within a square frame, with hoodmould. Twin slits in gables of main part, single slits in gables of porches. All windows 12-pane sashes. All openings in recessed and chamfered surrounds; all gables coped, on moulded kneelers.

Fenestration at rear altered.

Listing NGR: NU2491106125

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