Description

SK 97 SE BURTON MIDDLE STREET

9/24 Old School, wall,
gate piers and
gate

II

School, now village hall. 1897 with addition of 1919. Coursed
rockfaced limestone with yellow brick dressings and slate roof
with sprocketed eaves and raised stone coped gables, one
octagonal stone wall stack. Single storey, 3 bay front, central
chimney bay slightly advanced with string course and above 3
steps to a chimney at gable. Central 1914-18 war memorial in
Portland stone, flanked by single 4 light glazing bar casements
with brick dressings to eaves. In the central gable a
rectangular stone plaque bearing the Monson arms and the date
1897. Before the building is a low limestone rubble wall with
wedge shaped coping having a central gateway, flanked by low
square piers bearing seated lions with shields of arms. The
gates are of wrought iron with decorative top rails and spear
head terminals.

Listing NGR: SK9605074610

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 20 July 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641711

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)