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Holker School, Holker
Holker School
locality:-   Holker
civil parish:-   Lower Holker (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   SD36107692
1Km square:-   SD3676
10Km square:-   SD37
SummaryText:-   across the road from the present school


photograph
BTG72.jpg  Now a seconhand book shop.
(taken 30.7.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17) 
placename:-  Holker School
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.
"Holker School (National)"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OLD SCHOOL BUILDING / / B5278 / LOWER HOLKER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77037 / SD3609976920"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"School, now community hall, and house. After 1849. Possibly by George Webster. Dressed limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roof. School of one storey and 4 bays, the 1st bay projects under gable, 3rd bay breaks forward under gable. House of 2 storeys to left return. Rock-faced stone base and quoins. School has sill course. 1st bay has 5-light double- chamfered-mullioned window, the central 3 lights higher with transom, and label; upper triangular-headed light. 3rd bay has 3-light window similar to that to 1st bay. 2 windows to 2nd bay, that to left is small, over porch, that to right is tall, cutting sill course, both with chamfered reveals and C20 casements. 4th bay has 2 tall windows cutting sill course with C20 casements. Large C20 re-entrant hipped porch. Cross-axial stack with octagonal shafts. Right return has window as 1st bay of front. House has single bay to front with hipped roof and gablet to 1st floor window with plain bargeboards. Windows have label moulds to lintels and 2-light casements with iron glazing bars, in octagon and square pattern common to the Holker estate, one light to ground floor window now has plate glass. Left return of 3 bays, the 1st bay part of school, 2nd bay projects under gable, 3rd bay has C20 lean-to porch. Windows mostly as to front; 1st bay has large 4-light casement with transom and plain glazing with gabled dormer to 1st floor; 3rd bay has gablet to 1st floor window. C20 lean-to porch to 1st bay. Cross-axial stack and valley stack as above. Rear has gabled bay with 5-light window as to front; truncated lateral stack and lean-to outshut."


photograph
BTG73.jpg  Railings.
(taken 30.7.2010)  
photograph
BTG74.jpg  Railings.
(taken 30.7.2010)  

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