Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. School, house.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- empty-flint-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- School, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 51 SE ADLINGTON OLD SCHOOL LANE
8/7 Old School House - - II
School and house, dated 1815, now one house. Coursed squared sandstone, stone quoins, stone slate roof, with one brick chimney at left gable, 2 at right gable. Square plan 2 x 2 rooms. Two storeys, symmetrical; 2 adjacent round-headed doorways in centre with plain jambs and small keystones, blocked fanlights; one round-headed casement window each side at ground floor, ordinary casements above them at 1st floor. In the centre of the 1st floor is a rectangular stone tablet with incised lettering:-
"This School for pious and useful learning Was built by voluntary subscription In the Year of our Lord 1815 R.P.B."
Left half of building was school, right half was master's house. Left gable wall has 2 round headed casement windows on each floor, and both gable walls have in the centre at 1st floor a tall arched recess, now rendered. Rear wall has a round-headed window at ground floor of left half of building, 3 other casement windows, and a modern glazed poch.
Listing NGR: SD5951212321
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