All Saints Church Of England Middle School With Caretaker'S House

CATTLE MARKET STREET 1. 1480 (north side) SE 2045 All Saints Church of England 1/262 Middle School with Caretaker's House II GV 2. Board school with Master's, now Caretaker's,House. Opened 1879, ranges added 1894 and C20. Rock-faced stone; banded grey and green fish-scale slate roof. In Gothic style. Main, south, range single storey, 7 bays with 2-storey Master's House on left of 2 irregular bays; 2-storey 8-bay wing added to rear right; other additions not of special interest. Main range: chamfered plinth, roll- moulded stepped cill band, windows mostly transomed. Master's House: narrow bay on left has triangular-headed doorway with board door and fanlight under hoodmould and 1-light window above; right bay projects as wide canted bay with windows of 3 lights to front and 1 light to sides; roof hipped on left and over canted bay with red crested ridge tiles and front finial; stack to rear and to ridge on right. School: irregular facade. From left: outshut to bays 1 and 2 has triple lancet with colonnettes to bay and roll-moulded, pointed-arched doorway (now window) with stepped hoodmould and gable to bay 2. Bay 3: wider, breaking forward,with pointed-arched window of 5 lights under foiled, traceried oculus with coloured glass, the whole flanked by narrow side lights and under ball- stopped hoodmould; gable above has group of 3 stepped slit vents, kneelers, roll- moulded coping and fleur-de-lis finial. Bay 4, set back: gabled, with triple lancet window as bay 1. Bays 5 and 6: a 3-light window to each bay. Bay 7, projecting: window as bay 3, of 3 lights under sexfoil with coloured glass; hoodmould and gable treatment as bay 3. Roof has red, crested, ridge tiles, bases of 2 louvres, 2 ridge stacks, and above bay 3 a spire with louvred lower stage and elaborate iron weather vane. Right return: 2 low bays; then the taller 2-storeyed wing, in plainer style with cross windows but a similarly treated roof with ridge louvre under pyramidal cap.

Listing NGR: SE2029145785