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| Old School, Dent | ||
| Old School | ||
| Dent Village Hall | ||
| National School | ||
| Street:- | Laning (The) | |
| locality:- | Dent | |
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | village hall | |
| locality type:- | school (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | SD70428704 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7087 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 BYL19.jpg (taken 31.5.2013)  BYL20.jpg Plaque:- "NATIONAL. / SCHOOL. / 1845." (taken 31.5.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 64 13) |
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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. "School" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Old School |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "OLD SCHOOL / / THE LANING / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484430 / SD7042587042" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "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." |
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