Old School

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SJ 87 NW 4/118

NETHER ALDERLEY C.P. CHURCH LANE Old School

(formerly listed as Church Hall, CHURCH DRIVE, previously listed as Parish Hall (Old School)

14/4/1967

GV II* Former free school, presented to the parish in 1908 and used as a parish hall: dated 1628 for Hugh Shaw, addition to rear dated 1817 for Rev. Edward Stanley. Ashlar red sandstone. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and one brick chimney. Originally rectangular in plan now L-shaped.

One and a half storey, three-bay north front.Left end bay has a studded oak board door under a wooden lintel approached by five steps. Central bay has a rebated four-light chamfered stone mullioned window with a similar there-light in a stone coped and column finialled gabled half dormer. To right is a bead-moulded doorcase with a heavy cambered lintel containing a studded, three-board oak door with iron strap hinges. Above plaque reads "Mr Hugh Shaw Clerk/ built this School Ano 1628/Mr Thomas Deane de Park/Endowed it Jan:y 30th 1694".

Similar four- and five-light mullions in the gable end. To right and set back is part of additional range on stone plinth and with a projecting band at first floor and a three-light chamfered stone mullion in first storey below a small coped gable containing the date plaque. Square wooden bellcote on ridge with shaped lead roof and ball finial.

Interior: in the original the schoolroom was above and the master's house below. Chamfered ceiling beam with flat and tongue stop and studded eight-board door with cambered wooden lintel between old and new portions. Very heavy roof timbers visible in old schoolroom. Addition has some panelling from the church.

Listing NGR: SJ8417876108