Morcott Hall School

MORCOTT SK 90SW HIGH STREET (South side)

5/116 Morcott Hall School

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Large house, now school. Much of c1820 though possibly incorporating earlier fragments; the kitchen wing to rear looks like a C18 cottage. Coursed rubble, though main front is faced with ashlar and of 3 storeys, and 10 bays. Shallow outer gables with high parapets. The left hand gable projects slightly and projecting in turn from it is a 2-storey squared bay window, ornamented with Soanic pilasters, lightly moulded with incised rectangles, and containing four windows to each floor. All windows have moulded architraves and are tall, with minimal glazing bars. Central part of four bays. The doorway has round arched fanlight beneath a broken pediment and a slightly moulded architrave. The right hand gable is flush with the facade, and 2 bays wide. Two string courses and a modillion eaves cornice, which is interrupted by the gables. Rear is of rubble, squared and randomly coursed, with stone tiled roof with a long wing parallel to the street at right angles to the main range. Irregular composition might suggest various building dates. Certainly the low kitchen wing, of 1½ storeys with gabled dormers and stone stacks seems earlier.

Listing NGR: SK9237300722