Description

SP5659
13/26
18/01/68

BADBY
THE GREEN
(East side)
The Old School House
(Formerly listed as The Old School House (now Village Hall))

GV
II

House, formerly village school. c.1812 by James Wyatt for the Dowager Lady
Knightley. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roofs, stone internal stacks.
T-plan. Two-storey, one-window centre flanked by symmetrical 2-window wings of
one-storey and attic. Gothick panelled door in chamfered stone surround with
4-centred head within one storey porch with chamfered doorway with 4-centred
head and hood mould. First floor window above has 2-light leaded window with
pointed head. Y-tracery, transom and hood mould with label stops flanked by
blank shields. Plain stone coped parapet with string course below. Wings have
stone mullion and transom windows with diamond pane leaded lights and hood
moulds, and stone coped gables with kneelers. C20 rear extension. Interior has
bread oven.
(Buildings of England: Northants, p.100; colvin, A Dictionary of British
Architecs, p.944).

Listing NGR: SP5603259181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26338193

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)