Description

SD 48 SE
2/5
HEVERSHAM

Heversham

The Old School House
North of Church of
St Peter (q.v)

G.V.
II

Old School House, now house. Initials and date M.H. 1841 on gable. Rendered
walls with limestone dressings; graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge; one
end chimney to left, central chimney with round shaft. Gothick style. Irregular
plan. 2 storeys with single-storey portion to left. 2 adjacent gables to
front. Right hand gabled portion has (overhanging) upper floor resting on
massive roughly dressed limestone lintel supported on two weathered limestone
piers. 3-light window to ground floor, 4-light window with hood mould above,
both with chamfered stone mullions and surrounds and leaded glazing: upper
window has central lights set one above the other. Left hand gabled portion
narrower: board door in stone surround with 4-centred arched head, small
casement over. Single-storey portion to left has 2-light window with stone
mullions. See also notes for The Old School (q.v) and Curwen, John F. History
of Heversham with Milnthorpe, pub. Titus Wilson, Kendal, 1930, for further
details.

Listing NGR: SD4961683461

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26377658

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)