| Description | The Old School House, Warmfield cum Heath.
'Endowed school and attached Master's house, now house. c1660 with alterations c1751 when schoolmaster's house was added. Large well coursed gritstone, punch dressed to addition, stone slate roof. Single storey school with 2 storey master's cottage. Quoins. School house has 3 bay facade with central doorway with double tie stone jambs, deep Tudor arched lintel with chamfered surround. To either side a 3 light double chamfered mullioned and transomed window. Coped gables with kneelers. Set back to right, Master's house has doorway with monolithic lintel to left of window with monolithic lintel and projecting sill with small paned glazing with smaller window above. Rear: chamfered cross window to left of 2 sash windows with lintels and projecting sills. Left hand return, gable on to the Common, has large 20 pane sash window with raised plain stone surrounds.
Interior: altered to form dwelling. One pane of glass scratched 'Mary Wynn 1751'. Three king post trusses with angle struts.
Lady Bolles of Heath Old Hall endowed the foundation with £25.12.6 annually for a schoolmaster and usher at 'lately built school in Heath'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 14/02/1952. Date amended 27/08/1986. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1135545. Web site accessed 04/02/2014).
WYAAS archives hold a Historic building record relating to the barn at Heath Hall, Heath (Wakefield MDC (Planning/Conservation). Undated). The record also contains black and white photocopies of photographic prints of the barn.
The Old School House was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Peter Thornborrow (WYAS) c.1984 85 undertaken as part of the D.O.E relisting survey. The photographic image produced by the assessment is held by WYAAS (Thornborrow, P.H. (WYAS). c.1984 85). |