Description

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NZ 5208 NE
11/62

STOKESLEY
COLLEGE SQUARE (Centre block)
No 29 and 29A (Walshford Farm Shop)

(Formerly listed as No 29 (Walshford Farm Shop))

II
Formerly the old Grammar School. 1832, dated on plaque above doorway with inscription: Preston School. Coursed squared sandstone. Welsh slate roof with stepped gable end to road.
One tall storey. Central pointed-arched doorway has hooded niche above and is flanked by pointed windows with Y-tracery, all under drip moulds. Battlemented 3-bay east return and simpler domestic North extension. Blue plaque records that this was the first grammar school in the town.

Inside main school room has moulded cornice and central circular border.

Listing NGR: NZ5255408667

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26582251

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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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)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)