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Title: Heptonstall Grammar School Museum, (formerly listed as Warehouse in Church Lane, Nos 12 and 14 Church Lane and 1.11.66 Nos 4 and 5 Churchyard Bottom)
- CBC01807
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Title
Heptonstall Grammar School Museum, (formerly listed as Warehouse in Church Lane, Nos 12 and 14 Church Lane and 1.11.66 Nos 4 and 5 Churchyard Bottom)
- CBC01807
- CBC01807
Description
GRADE II
School, 1771 and attached pair of cottages, late C17 or early C18, now forming museum. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. School 2 storeys to Church Lane, and single storey to front, cottages 3 storeys to Church Lane and 2 storeys to front. Church Lane elevation has school to left with 3 bays of simple Venetian windows to each floor with false keystones. Doorway between 1st and 2nd bay, paired doorways between 2nd and 3rd bays all with tie-stone jambs and chamfered surround. Over paired doorways is a single window with semi- circular arched lintel, impost block and keystone. All windows have small pane glazing. Cottages break forward and rise higher. 2 cells with paired doorways to centre. All are double chamfered mullioned windows. To left 3 lights to each floor. To right 3 lights with 5-light windows over to 1st and 2nd floor. Church Yard front has doorway either side of 6-light window with king mullion and two 3-light windows to 1st floor. School breaks forward and has 2 doorways with tie-stone jambs and chamfered surround with richly moulded recess over, one now a window the other with stone engraved " HEPTONSTALL " 1642 GRAMMAR SCHOOL . South gable has 3-light double chamfered mullioned window to attic. Coped gable with kneelers. Lateral stack to front and rear and one other to ridge. A plaque to front is inscribed " HEPTONSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDED 1642 BY ENDOWMENT OF THE REV. CHARLES GREENWOOD M.A. RECTOR OF THORNHILL LORD OF THE MANOR OF HEPTONSTALL REBUILT 1772 CLOSED 1889 "
Interior of school room has stone fireplace with flat-arched lintel and chamfered stone shelf. Fitted bookcase with semi-circular arched surround. Earlier this century used as a bank by the Yorkshire Penny Bank. C.F. Stell, p.271.
NGR: SD98696 28049
CMBC Ref: H/51
Historic England Listing: 1229575
School, 1771 and attached pair of cottages, late C17 or early C18, now forming museum. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. School 2 storeys to Church Lane, and single storey to front, cottages 3 storeys to Church Lane and 2 storeys to front. Church Lane elevation has school to left with 3 bays of simple Venetian windows to each floor with false keystones. Doorway between 1st and 2nd bay, paired doorways between 2nd and 3rd bays all with tie-stone jambs and chamfered surround. Over paired doorways is a single window with semi- circular arched lintel, impost block and keystone. All windows have small pane glazing. Cottages break forward and rise higher. 2 cells with paired doorways to centre. All are double chamfered mullioned windows. To left 3 lights to each floor. To right 3 lights with 5-light windows over to 1st and 2nd floor. Church Yard front has doorway either side of 6-light window with king mullion and two 3-light windows to 1st floor. School breaks forward and has 2 doorways with tie-stone jambs and chamfered surround with richly moulded recess over, one now a window the other with stone engraved " HEPTONSTALL " 1642 GRAMMAR SCHOOL . South gable has 3-light double chamfered mullioned window to attic. Coped gable with kneelers. Lateral stack to front and rear and one other to ridge. A plaque to front is inscribed " HEPTONSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDED 1642 BY ENDOWMENT OF THE REV. CHARLES GREENWOOD M.A. RECTOR OF THORNHILL LORD OF THE MANOR OF HEPTONSTALL REBUILT 1772 CLOSED 1889 "
Interior of school room has stone fireplace with flat-arched lintel and chamfered stone shelf. Fitted bookcase with semi-circular arched surround. Earlier this century used as a bank by the Yorkshire Penny Bank. C.F. Stell, p.271.
NGR: SD98696 28049
CMBC Ref: H/51
Historic England Listing: 1229575
Date
2021-07-13T09:53:35
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale M.B.C.
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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Citation
“Heptonstall Grammar School Museum, (formerly listed as Warehouse in Church Lane, Nos 12 and 14 Church Lane and 1.11.66 Nos 4 and 5 Churchyard Bottom)
- CBC01807,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35353.
- CBC01807,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35353.
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