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Listed Building: FORMER SCHOOLROOM AT STOCKING FARM (1068689)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 1260, 2, 53
Date assigned 19 June 1987
Date last amended

Description

Schoolroom, now farm outbuildings. Early C19. Coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings and quoins. Cement tile roof, has gabled bellcote to south. Two storeys. East elevation of three irregular bays. The ground floor has a blocked round arched doorway with key and impost blocks, now within a C20 lean-to not of special interest. To the left is a segemental arched cart entrance with keyblock. To the left again in a straight flight of stone steps partly supported on two circular columns. These lead up to a doorway with plain ashlar surround and plank door. To the left a circular window with ashlar surround, and to the right are two 3-light windows with chamfered stone mullions and a transom. The south gable end has an inserted cart entrance with timber lintel, and beneath the bellcote a blocked round-arched window with moulded impost band. The Schoolroom was built after 1817 by Horatio Mason of Calver Mill as a Sunday School and with the passing of the 1833 Factory Act it became the Mill School. Listing NGR: SK2462274714

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Location

Grid reference SK 24622 74714 (point)
Map sheet SK27SW
Civil Parish CALVER, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Jul 12 2016 11:28AM

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