Old School

TF 34 SE BUTTERWICK SCHOOL LANE (east side)

12/19 Old School (formerly listed as 19.11.51 The Girls' school)

G.V. II

Former school, now village hall. Founded 1665, extended and altered 1878 and C20. Red brick, ashlar dressings, with raised brick coped tumbled gable to left and moulded kneeler; fishscale tiled roofs. L-plan. Single storey, altered 4 bay front with brick plinth and band rising over formal central door and flanking windows in Fen Artisan Mannerist style. Dogtooth eaves course. Central C19 cross mullioned window flanked by single 3 light mullioned windows with ashlar surrounds, which are in part original. Latticed cast iron casements. Above C19 2 light shallow fixed lights. To left a lower C19 single bay extension also with latticed casements. To right is a slightly advanced gabled bay of 1878 containing a triple mullioned window. In the left hand later gable a shield bears the date of 1659. To the rear a projecting chimney stack has a C19 octagonal ashlar stack. It is flanked by single 2 and 3 light mullioned windows matching those to the front. The rear range is dated 1878 in raised brickwork. The school, originally for Boys, was endowed by Anthony Pinchbeck, yeoman of Butterwick. Source: Thompson. History of Boston.

Listing NGR: TF3859344395