2 Old School Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Former schoolhouse.
2 Old School Houses
- WRENN ID
- former-balcony-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Former schoolhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 45 NW ALDFORD C.P. CHESTER ROAD (West side) 6/7 2 Old School Houses
II
Former Schoolhouse, opened April 1872 (Aldford Boys School Logbook in Cheshire Record Office), closed as a school in 1912 and converted to 2 cottages. Built at the expense of the 3rd Marquis of Westminster adjoining the site of an earlier school (tithe map for Aldford 1837 in Cheshire Record Office). Brown brick, English garden wall bond, on battered plinth of squared snecked rubble sandstone; half timbered gables. Steeply pitched red tile roofs with 2 rectangular brick chimneys on main ridge. One and a half storeys with a front of 4 windows. The former school hall, left, has gables to front and end on stone corbels; the Schoolmaster's house, right, has a half dormer gable to front and, central, a small dormer under a raking roof. Small-pane iron casements in bevelled mullioned openings of sandstone in the lower storey and timber-framed openings in the upper one. Framed and boarded doors. Interiors not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4209559077
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