Description

SE 16 NW MIDDLEHAM SWINE MARKET
(north side)

9/82 Old School and railings
(Formerly listed as The Old
14.2.79 Church School

GV II

National School and railings. Dated 1869. Rubble, Welsh slate roof.
2-storey school with 4-stage tower porch, 3:1:3 bays. Hammer-faced quoins.
School; ground floor: C20 casement windows. First floor: pointed-arched
windows, single lancets flanking central 3-light windows with tracery below
quoined gables containing blank loop-holes. Kneelers, ashlar copings, end
stacks. Tower: single lancets to first and second stages; on fourth a blank
loop-hole; on second a plaque describing the building of the school as a
memorial to Rev J A Birch, late Rector of Middleham. Entrance on right
return of tower, a board door in ashlar surround on plinths with cornice
capitals and 4-centred arch head. Railings in front of school to right of
tower: ashlar plinth supporting cast-iron railings with spear finials, urn
finials to standards, ashlar gate-piers.

Listing NGR: SE1260887712

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26473943

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]