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Blencogo Village Hall, Blencogo
Blencogo Village Hall
locality:-   Blencogo
civil parish:-   Bromfield (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   village hall
locality type:-   school (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY20044824
1Km square:-   NY2048
10Km square:-   NY24
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CFG12.jpg (taken 29.7.2016)  
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CFG14.jpg  Date stone:-
"GMD / 1854" (taken 29.7.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 28 7) 
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"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Blencogo School
item:-  date stone (1854)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLENCOGO SCHOOL / / / BROMFIELD / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 410436 / NY2003848236"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"School. Inscribed and dated on chimney breast GMD (George Dixon) 1854 with shield of arms on another chimney breast. Hammer-dressed red sandstone under graduated slate roof with coped gables; candlestick chimney stacks. Single storey, 3 bays. Gabled porch has original plank door with cast ornate brackets and fitments. Central large gabled diamond-paned 4-light window under quatrefoil and hoodmould. Similar 2-light window to left. Chimney breasts flank central window. Open stone bellcote to right of roof. Further gabled stone porch to left with rear doorway. C20 extension to left is not of interest."


photograph
CFG13.jpg  Crest.
(taken 29.7.2016)  
photograph
CFG15.jpg  Windows.
(taken 29.7.2016)  

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