Schoolhouse And Old School With Attached Wall And Outbuildings

NU 2517 LONGHOUGHTON HOWICK VILLAGE

17/140 Schoolhouse and Old School, with attached wall and outbuildings GV II

Former school and master's house, with yard walls and outbuildings to rear. House late C18, enlarged and school added in mid-C19. Squared tooled stone, C19 parts with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roofs.

House 2 storeys, 1 + 2 bays, the lower left part C18. Right part has shallow flat-topped porch, with flush-panelled door under cornice, in left bay; left part has paired 12-pane sashes on ground floor (right is C19 insertion) and single similar window above. Both parts have pitched gable copings on moulded kneelers; stepped-and-corniced end stacks.

Single-storey 3-bay school to left; paired 12-pane sashes except for 8-pane sash in right end bay; between left bays a projecting stepped chimney breast carrying stepped-and-corniced stack. Left end gable has pitched coping on moulded kneelers, and corbelled-out bellcote with shouldered arch above blind slit; roll-moulded finial. Far left is lower pent porch with 2-pane sash and boarded door to rear.

Left return of school shows paired 12-pane sashes in stop-chamfered surrounds. Right return of house shows 12-pane sashes. Rear elevation: house has small yard with flat-coped wall and boarded door; small outbuilding at right of yard has small-paned casements in outer walls. School shows vertical-panelled door in stop-chamfered alternating-block surround.

Historical note: Magdalen Grey d.1709 left funds towards the maintenance of a school at Howick, further endowed by Sir Henry Grey c.1749. The older part of the house is said to have housed the schoolroom on the ground floor and master's dwelling above.

Listing NGR: NU2566117797