The Old School

SK 9699-9799 REDBOURNE SCHOOL LANE (south side)

22/70 The Old School

GV II School and school-house, now house. 1840 for Duke of St Albans Estate, with alterations and additions dated on tablet to 1891. Restored and converted to house c1980. Dressed limestone with limestone ashlar dressings and stack. Slate roof. Main range L-shaped on plan: 2-room school-house with classroom wing at right angles and outshut entrance porch in angle; L-shaped outhouse range to rear. East front: 2-storey single-bay gabled school-house section with single-storey 2-bay classroom and entrance porch set back to right; single-storey outhouses, with 3 openings to left and 2-window section projecting forward at right angles. Chamfered plinth. Quoins throughout. Porch has step to panelled door in 4-centred wave-moulded arch beneath square-headed hood-mould. Classroom to right has 4-light ashlar chamfered- mullion window. To left: small casement to porch, small raking dormer above; single ground-floor 3-light and first-floor 2-light mullioned window to school-house. All mullioned windows have glazing bars, chamfered reveals and hood-moulds. Coped gable with shaped kneelers and finials. Axial stack to school-house with moulded band, cluster of 4 square shafts and cornice. Outhouse range (now part of house) has C20 glazed door, original board doors and casements in ashlar surrounds. Classroom wing has pointed 3-light mullion and transom window to. C20 rebuilt right gable-end and two 3-light mullioned windows to rear. School-house has 2-light and 3-light mullioned windows and C20 wooden canted bay window to rear.

Listing NGR: SK9738899981