Saint Martin'S School The Old School House

SJ 79 SE SALE GREEN LANE (west side)

3/165 Saint Martin's School and The Old School 12.5.76 House

G.V. II

School and schoolmaster's house. Dated 1874, tower 1877. W. Brakspear for Sir William Cunliffe Brooks. Free Gothic style. Header bond brick, stone dressings and slate roofs. T-shaped single-storey school (of 7 x 4 bays) with corner clock tower and adjoining house of 2 storeys. The school has projecting plinth, sill band, decorative applied timber eaves band, steeply pitched roof, coped gables with kneelers, and triangular roof vents. Each bay has a 2-light stone dressed mullion window with heavy transom. The clock tower forms an important street feature with it's commemorative stone plaque, stone quoins and bands, open belfry, pyramidal roof and weather vane. The 3-bay schoolmaster's house is attached by an elaborate arched entrance with foundation stone above and has similar details except for the cusped window heads, picturesque porch and dormer window, polychromatic relieving arches and crested ridge tiles.

Listing NGR: SJ7740292492