Former School And School House

TF 04 SW WILSFORD SCHOOL LANE (west side)

4/121 Former School and School House

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Former school and school house now house. 1857 with minor C20 alterations. Rock faces limestone with ashlar quoins and dressings, slate roofs with raised stone coped gables and paired bracketed kneelers, single ridge and 2 gable ashlar stacks with paired funnels and chamfered bases and capitals. L-plan. Single storey 7 bay front to street with chamfered plinth, 3 stepped buttresses and gabled porch with belfry to the apex. The off centre porch has a chamfered 4 centred arched outer doorway and a planked inner door. To left are single 2 and 3 light windows and to the right are a pair of windows and 3 sets of 3. All windows are lancets with trefoil heads and are plain casements. Above the doorway is a carved ashlar scroll recording the construction of the school in 1857. The house is to the left rear and has a single story plus attics 3 bay front with central half glazed door in a 4 centred arched surround flanked by triplets of lancets matching those of the school. Above the door is a square panel of arms. In the roof are 2 gabled through eaves dormers with stone coped gables and kneelers. They are supported on triple rolled corbels and contain pairs of lancets. All windows are plain case- ments.

Listing NGR: TF0032042730