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Old School

A Grade II* Listed Building in Nether Alderley, Cheshire East

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Latitude: 53.2817 / 53°16'54"N

Longitude: -2.2387 / 2°14'19"W

OS Eastings: 384178

OS Northings: 376108

OS Grid: SJ841761

Mapcode National: GBR DZTH.39

Mapcode Global: WHBBF.LS41

Plus Code: 9C5V7QJ6+MG

Entry Name: Old School

Listing Date: 14 April 1967

Last Amended: 6 July 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1216836

English Heritage Legacy ID: 58285

Also known as: Parish Hall
Church Hall

ID on this website: 101216836

Location: Nether Alderley, Cheshire East, Cheshire, SK10

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Nether Alderley

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Alderley St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: School building Church hall

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Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/01/2020

SJ 87 NW
4/118

NETHER ALDERLEY C.P.
CHURCH LANE
Old School

(formerly listed as Church Hall, CHURCH DRIVE, previously listed as Parish Hall (Old School)

14/4/1967

GV
II*
Former free school, presented to the parish in 1908 and used as a parish hall: dated 1628 for Hugh Shaw, addition to rear dated 1817 for Rev. Edward Stanley. Ashlar red sandstone. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and one brick chimney. Originally rectangular in plan now L-shaped.

One and a half storey, three-bay north front.Left end bay has a studded oak board door under a wooden lintel approached by five steps. Central bay has a rebated four-light chamfered stone mullioned window with a similar there-light in a stone coped and column finialled gabled half dormer. To right is a bead-moulded doorcase with a heavy cambered lintel containing a studded, three-board oak door with iron strap hinges. Above plaque reads "Mr Hugh Shaw Clerk/ built this School Ano 1628/Mr Thomas Deane de Park/Endowed it Jan:y 30th 1694".

Similar four- and five-light mullions in the gable end. To right and set back is part of additional range on stone plinth and with a projecting band at first floor and a three-light chamfered stone mullion in first storey below a small coped gable containing the date plaque. Square wooden bellcote on ridge with shaped lead roof and ball finial.

Interior: in the original the schoolroom was above and the master's house below. Chamfered ceiling beam with flat and tongue stop and studded eight-board door with cambered wooden lintel between old and new portions. Very heavy roof timbers visible in old schoolroom. Addition has some panelling from the church.

Listing NGR: SJ8417876108

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