The Old Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. Schoolroom. 1 related planning application.
The Old Schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- slow-fireplace-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1968
- Type
- Schoolroom
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTH HIENDLEY CHURCH LANE SE31SE (west side) Felkirk 4/62 The Old Schoolroom 25.3.1968 GV II
Schoolroom, now parish room. Probably C16 (but see History, below). Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Rectangular single-cell plan. Single storey; symmetrical 2-bay south front has moulded Tudor-arched doorway in the centre, board door with ornamental strap hinges; 2 buttresses flanking the doorway, and in each bay a recessed mullioned window of 5 Tudor-arched lights with hollow spandrels, and hoodmould. External chimney stack at left gable, embraced by low added outbuilding. Rear wall has 2 inserted 3-light casement windows. Interior: altered, roof concealed by ceiling. History: Prudence, wife of Richard Berrie and neice of Sir Richard Gargrave of Kinsley, endowed school in mid C17; mentioned in l660 as free school for manor of Havercroft. Reference: Kate Taylor Wakefield District Heritage, (Wakefield, 1976) Vol II p.55.
Listing NGR: SE3871912616
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