Description

DENT

SD7087 THE LANING, Dent Town
162-1/24/204 (South side)
14/06/84 Old School

GV II

National School, now school hall and public meeting room.
Dated 1845 on porch; altered. Coursed squared sandstone with
freestone quoins and dressings, graduated slate roof.
Rectangular plan on east-west axis facing north, with a
projecting porch.
Single storey, 4 windows, symmetrical. In the centre is a
large gabled porch which has a large round-headed doorway with
a chamfered surround, arched hoodmould and double board doors
with strap hinges, a panel containing a plaque inscribed
"NATIONAL / SCHOOL / 1845", with a hoodmould; and gable coping
with kneelers. To each side are 2 tall 2-light mullioned
windows with round-headed lights, and hoodmoulds. Plain gutter
brackets; coped gables with kneelers. Former pair of diagonal
chimneys and cone-shaped ventilator all now missing. Rear: C20
single-storey school building attached.
INTERIOR: one vessel, altered.
Forms group with Old Post Office (qv) diagonally opposite.

Listing NGR: SD7042487044

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663843

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)