The Old School

NESTON

SJ3174 NESTON ROAD, Burton 794-1/11/1 (East side) 27/12/62 The Old School (Formerly Listed as: NESTON ROAD, Burton (East side) Bishop Wilson School)

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School with schoolmaster's cottage attached, now one dwelling. Dated 1724; later alterations and additions, including rear extension of 1890. Brown brick in English Garden Wall bond with red sandstone dressings; slate roof with coped gables and single gable stack of brick. EXTERIOR: school is 1 storey, 5 bays, end bays gabled and projecting; schoolmaster's cottage to left is 1 bay, 1 storey and attic. Cottage has a projecting stone plinth, flush quoins, projecting band over ground floor window and ogee moulded eaves cornice. Ground floor window is a multi-paned horizontal sliding sash under a brick flat arch with stone keyblock. The attic window is a 2-light casement with glazing bars in a flat roofed half dormer with side pilasters. Between the windows there is an ogee-topped tablet bearing the date 1724. School end bays project forward and have coped gables with kneelers: centre bays surmounted by shallow coped parapet fronting a wide lead gutter. Left end bay has a boarded door under segment-arched lintel with turning piece: right end bay has a large casement divided into 9 panes under projecting band with key: both gables have moulded eaves cornices broken by cross-glazed oval windows beneath floating cornices. Centre bays windows are tall, the outer ones of 15 panes, the centre one of paired 10-pane lights, all in keyed raised surrounds and with transoms continued across full width of front and as raised band. Right return: stepped lancets in gable wall. INTERIOR: right room has both strutted and king post trusses with cambered tie beams: left room firebeam and exposed ceiling beam. Cottage has C18 hob-grate in bedroom, also wide boarded door. HISTORY: the building was founded by Bishop Robert Wilson and formerly known as Bishop Wilson School.

Listing NGR: SJ3123574317