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Latitude: 53.5553 / 53°33'19"N
Longitude: -1.1276 / 1°7'39"W
OS Eastings: 457889
OS Northings: 406875
OS Grid: SE578068
Mapcode National: GBR NWKB.N7
Mapcode Global: WHDCW.NW7S
Plus Code: 9C5WHV4C+4X
Entry Name: Old Village School House
Listing Date: 10 December 1959
Last Amended: 23 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1314859
English Heritage Legacy ID: 334916
ID on this website: 101314859
Location: Arksey, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5
County: Doncaster
Electoral Ward/Division: Bentley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bentley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Arksey All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
Tagged with: House
BENTLEY WITH ARKSEY HIGH STREET
SE 50 NE (west side),
Arksey
7/52 Old Village School
10.12.59 House (formerly
listed as
Village School)
GV II
School house now youth club. 1683, altered and extended in C19. For Sir
George Cooke (d1683). Rubble magnesian limestone, Welsh slate roof.
1 storey, 5 bays; wing to rear right. Large quoins. Blocked central doorway
with bolection-moulded surround, pulvinated frieze and broken segmental
pediment (formerly with cartouche in tympanum). Other bays have recessed,
chamfered surrounds to tall 2-light mullioned windows with C20 casements and
trefoil-head lights beneath square heads. Continuous cyma-moulded dripmould.
Shaped kneelers and triangular gable copings. Tall rendered end stacks with
cornices. Rear: one window as front, otherwise altered; wing on left has
5-light window in its return and tall external stack in angle with main
range.
"Sir George Cooke, Bart. gave by his will £200, and two cottages, for
building a fair school-house".
(Camden Britannica, page 849, cited by Miller p228).
D. Hey, Buildings of Britain 1550-1750, Yorkshire, 1981, p134 (plate).
E. Miller, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, 1804.
Listing NGR: SE5788806877
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