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| Great Corby School | ||
| locality:- | Great Corby | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| coordinates:- | NY47505464 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4754 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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 BVA09.jpg (taken 22.7.2011)  BVA11.jpg Sign. (taken 22.7.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 6) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Endowed School" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Great Corby School |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GREAT CORBY SCHOOL / / / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77709 / NY4751454633" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "School. 1845 for trustees of bequest of Henry Howard of Corby Castle, with extension of 1882. Dressed red sandstone walls, slate roof, brick chimney stacks. 1845 building of 2 storeys, 3 bays. Projecting 2 storey porch, with crow-stepped gable and corbelled-out dormer with lancet window, above Tudor entrance arch, with hood-moulds to both; C20 door. Sash windows with glazing bars and hood-moulds. Stone modillions to gutters and coped gables with kneelers. 1882 building adjoining, is single storey, 4 bays, buttressed sandstone walls, steeply pitched slate roof with decorative ridge tiles and slated wooden bellcote. 4 pairs of sash windows with single glazing bars. Listing does not include C20 additions to right." |
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 BVA12.jpg Gate (seems to lead nowhere):- "GREAT CORBY SCHOOL 1999" (taken 22.7.2011)  BVA10.jpg (taken 22.7.2011) |
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