Description

CHADDESLEY CORBETT CP VILLAGE STREET (east side)
SO 8873 - 8973
14/49 The Old School House
(formerly listed as
25.2.58 The Schoolmaster's House)
GV II

House. Dated 1785, with some early C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Brick with
tile roof. Two storeys, moulded stone cornice, two windows: 16-pane boxed
sashes under cambered heads with key stones and stone sills. Ground floor:
entrance to passage to right-hand corner has a semi-circular head with plain
impost blocks. Entrance to house at rear has a flat wooden canopy on consoles.
Rectangular datestone with recessed oval inscription panel above first floor
windows: "This house/ was built in the year/ 1785/ for the use of the school-
master/ of this parish and the sum of / sixty/ pounds given by the late/
Mr Clement Fisher/ was expended therein".

Listing NGR: SO8925373648

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631729

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets