Village Hall And Gatepiers

LAZENBY HIGH STREET, south side. NZ 51 NE 7/20 Village Hall and gatepiers - II

School, and schoolmaster's house, now village hall, 1867. Brick with stone dressings, quoins and continuous plinth. Welsh slate roofs. Stone gable copings, moulded kneelers and crested ridge tiles on school. Roughly "L"-plan range. Single-storey, 3-bay school, with 3-stage tower/porch adjoining left end. Recessed round-headed panelled door in chamfered surround with carved shouldered head under continuous hoodmould. Short diagonal buttress at left. Middle stage has chamfered square panel with shield dated 1867, under hoodmould, and trefoil-headed sash window in left return. String course between middle and uppermost stage which has paired small square windows with stop-chamfered surrounds. Brick dogtooth band below bracketed eaves of steeply-pitched hipped roof, sprocketed at eaves, with louvered gablet bell openings, and fancy iron ridge cresting. School has chamfered pointed windows, with battered sills and trefoil-headed sashes, in groups of 2 and 3. Sill string. Iron tie plates and linking bar above middle window. Iron vane finial at right end. Former schoolmaster's house adjoins left, at rear of tower: 1½ storeys, one window. 2-light chamfered-mullioned ground-floor window with segmental-pointed head, and similar first-floor window in hipped half-dormer, all with sashes. Deep overhanging eaves with shaped rafter-ends. Hipped roof has transverse ridge stack with 3 conjoined lozenge shafts. Left return has 3 similar ground-floor windows and 2 half-dormers. Right return of school has pointed window with Geometric tracery under hoodmould with carved stops. Late C20 door inserted at left. Circular, louvred opening in octagonal surround under hoodmould in gable. Rear of school shows reduced external stack with offsets, and extruded lean-to porch with 4-panel door. Gatepiers at entrance have chamfered plinth, and gabled cap ornamented with roll mouldings, blind trefoils and quadrant corbel table.

Listing NGR: NZ5719619718