Formerly The Old School

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WARKWORTH THE BUTTS (East side) Old School East and Old School West

(Formerly listed as The Old School)

GV II

Former National School. Founded 1824, extended by the addition of school rooms for infants and girls 1852. Roughly-squared stone with cut quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles. Cruciform plan. Tudor style. Single storey, 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 bays. Projecting gabled centre has chamfered plinth and five-light window with hoodmould stepped up over the taller transomed central light; slit above. Stepped-and-corniced stack on left return. Flanking parts have central stepped stacks, upper parts rebuilt, between pairs of two- and three-light mullioned windows; left end has corbelled-out gabled bellcote with pointed arch and moulded finial. At each end a lower porch with a vertical-panelled door under a flat-pointed head within a square frame, with hoodmould. Twin slits in gables of main part, single slits in gables of porches. All windows 12-pane sashes. All openings in recessed and chamfered surrounds; all gables coped, on moulded kneelers.

Fenestration at rear altered.

Listing NGR: NU2491106125