Old Grammar School And Attached Cottage

SD 52SW LEYLAND CHURCH ROAD

8/24 Old Grammar School and attached 26.7.1951 cottage (Formerly listed as The Old Grammar GV II School and No. 24)

Grammar School, late C16 or early C17, with attached master's cottage dated 1790; now museum. Gable end to road, in corner of churchyard. Brick, with stone plinth and quoins, slate roof, gable chimney at left end, and very large external chimney stack at right end, which has scored rendering. School is rectangular, 4 bays and 2 storeys; cottage attached at south east corner is one bay of 2 storeys. West wall of school is slightly stepped and has some quoins in the centre; 5 ground floor windows of 3 lights with rendered brick mullions and segmental brick heads; 3 windows at 1st floor, of 5, 4 and 4 lights, all with rendered brick mullions, some similar windows on rear wall. Present entrance through cottage door at south end, which has lintel lettered "By the liberal Contributions of the Gentlemen of this Parish and others in the year 1790". Interior: floor level recently lowered by excavation; ground floor room has 5 chamfered beams, 2 with arch-bracing to wooden corbels; much evidence of internal timber framing.

Listing NGR: SD5417921602