Towlson Memorial Music Room, School Shop And Domestic Offices At Woodhouse Grove School

HORSFORTH APPERLEY LANE SE 13 NE 1495-/7/10002 Towlson Memorial Music Room, School Shop and Domestic Offices at Woodhouse Grove School II

Former barn and coach house with stables. Mid C18, converted 1811, altered c1900, clock tower added 1902, altered 1964. Coursed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Quoins. Music room and shop, formerly barn converted to schoolroom 1811. west gable wall has blocked former central doorway flanked by single round headed breathers. Above 2 tall round headed windows, with between a plaque inscribed "WESLYAN ACADEMY OPENED JANUARY 8 : 1812" and above a clock face. Above in the gable a further plaque commemorating the addition of the Turret clock, in 1902. Above the gable, a square clock tower with corner pilasters, bracketed eaves and a pyramidal roof with weather vane. South front has 2 rows of breathers and five tall round headed windows, that to the right now part door. North front has to left blocked threshing doorway, and 3 round headed windows, plus a 4- panel door, to the right a 6-panel door and beyond a pair of glazing bar sashes, above 2 plain sashes. Domestic offices,. formerly coach house and stables, used as chapel 1811-33. 5 window facade, with slightly projecting 3 window central section topped by a pediment. Central doorway now a window, with segmental pediment supported on brackets, eitherside tall glazing bar windows. 3 blocked square windows, and above a single inserted window which breaks into the pediment. Eitherside a single round headed coach entrance, that to the left masked by a lean-to addition, that to the right containing a pair of inserted casements with a doorway to the left. Above single square windows that to the left blocked.

Listing NGR: SE1977538276