The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1955. School, village hall. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- sunken-sill-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1955
- Type
- School, village hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ASHBY PARVA MAIN STREET SP58NW 1323-0 3/12 (South side) 11/01/55 The Old School (Formerly Listed as: School) II
School, now village hall. Dated 1832. Red brick with flat wooden eaves soffit to hipped slate roof. Two storeys; four windows, more widely spaced to left of centre. Segment-headed surrounds with drip-moulds. Transom and mullion cross casements, to left of centre with glazing bars, to right with square lead lattice glazing. Round-arched doorway to right of centre with blank arch and panelled door. Window above door replaced by lower rectangular slate inset plaque inscribed 'This School was built and endowed by Sarah Bower, Widow of the Rev Jas Bower, Rector of St Roche, Cornwall, from a bequest made for charitable purposes by Lucy Goodacre, widow of Thomas Goodacre of Leire', (followed by a quotation from 2 Timothy, II, iv). Inset plaque of slate below inscribed 'THE OLD SCHOOL was given to the people of Ashby Parva to use as their VILLAGE HALL, 19th February, 1968'. Extension projecting to right of circa 1968, of one storey with hipped slate roof.
Listing NGR: SP5262888593
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