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Latitude: 53.6756 / 53°40'32"N
Longitude: -1.4596 / 1°27'34"W
OS Eastings: 435795
OS Northings: 420038
OS Grid: SE357200
Mapcode National: GBR LT7Y.S4
Mapcode Global: WHDC4.KW53
Plus Code: 9C5WMGGR+65
Entry Name: The Old School House
Listing Date: 14 February 1952
Last Amended: 27 August 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1135545
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342379
ID on this website: 101135545
Location: Heath, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1
County: Wakefield
Civil Parish: Warmfield cum Heath
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Warmfield St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: House
SE 3519 and SE 3520 WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH HEATH COMMON
(east side)
6/74 The Old School
14.2.52 House (formerly listed
as "School House")
GV II
Endowed school and attached Master's house, now house. c1660 with alterations
c1751 when schoolmaster's house was added. Large well-coursed gritstone,
punch-dressed to addition, stone-slate roof. Single-storey school with 2-storey
master's cottage. Quoins. School house has 3-bay facade with central doorway
with double tie-stone jambs, deep Tudor-arched lintel with chamfered surround.
To either side a 3-light double-chamfered mullioned-and-transomed window. Coped
gables with kneelers. Set back to right, Master's house has doorway with
monolithic lintel to left of window with monolithic lintel and projecting sill
with small-paned glazing with smaller window above. Rear: chamfered cross-window
to left of 2 sash windows with lintels and projecting sills. Left-hand return,
gable-on to the Common, has large 20-pane sash window with raised plain-stone
surrounds.
Interior: altered to form dwelling. One pane of glass scratched "Mary Wynn 1751".
Three king-post trusses with angle-struts.
Lady Bolles of Heath Old Hall endowed the foundation with £25.12.6 annually for
a schoolmaster and usher at 'lately built school in Heath'.
Listing NGR: SE3579520038
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