Rookery Plantation, Leicestershire

The old school, Burton on the Wolds

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Built in 1881 by the Packe family, of Prestwold hall, whose crest appears in the cartouche in the central gable. It replaced an earlier building of 1840 which housed a school, founded in 1657, which moved to this site when the hall was expanded in 1840. In 1882 it became a Board School serving the villages of Burton on the Wolds and Walton on the Wolds before being replaced by a later school in the village of Burton itself. Now converted to residential use. Listed Grade II.

Uploaded to Geograph by Alan Murray-Rust on 23 March 2012

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