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Latitude: 52.4927 / 52°29'33"N
Longitude: -1.2263 / 1°13'34"W
OS Eastings: 452628
OS Northings: 288593
OS Grid: SP526885
Mapcode National: GBR 8P2.NST
Mapcode Global: VHCT5.PLKY
Plus Code: 9C4WFQVF+3F
Entry Name: The Old School
Listing Date: 11 January 1955
Last Amended: 30 September 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292797
English Heritage Legacy ID: 392501
ID on this website: 101292797
Location: Ashby Parva, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE17
County: Leicestershire
District: Harborough
Civil Parish: Ashby Parva
Traditional County: Leicestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire
Church of England Parish: Ashby Parva St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
Tagged with: School building
ASHBY PARVA MAIN STREET SP58NW 1323-0 3/12 (South side) 11/01/55 The Old School (Formerly Listed as: School) II
School, now village hall. Dated 1832. Red brick with flat wooden eaves soffit to hipped slate roof. Two storeys; four windows, more widely spaced to left of centre. Segment-headed surrounds with drip-moulds. Transom and mullion cross casements, to left of centre with glazing bars, to right with square lead lattice glazing. Round-arched doorway to right of centre with blank arch and panelled door. Window above door replaced by lower rectangular slate inset plaque inscribed 'This School was built and endowed by Sarah Bower, Widow of the Rev Jas Bower, Rector of St Roche, Cornwall, from a bequest made for charitable purposes by Lucy Goodacre, widow of Thomas Goodacre of Leire', (followed by a quotation from 2 Timothy, II, iv). Inset plaque of slate below inscribed 'THE OLD SCHOOL was given to the people of Ashby Parva to use as their VILLAGE HALL, 19th February, 1968'. Extension projecting to right of circa 1968, of one storey with hipped slate roof.
Listing NGR: SP5262888593
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