Village Hall And School House

TF O1 NE WITHAM ON THE HILL MAIN STREET (north side)

2/287 Village Hall and School House

G.V. II

Former school and school house. Now village hall and house. 1847. Squared rock faced ashlar with smooth ashlar quoins and dressings, slate roofs with stone coped gables and crested ridge tiles To the school is a gabled C13 style bellcote. The house has 2 wall and single gable stacks, now in brick. The house is linked to the school by a screen wall containing a Tudor arched doorway. The school is single storey, 4 bay front, with plinth, stepped buttresses and inscribed eaves cornice "Train up a child, in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it". 4 paired cast iron latticed and bordered windows with cusped ogee ashlar heads. The house is T plan of 2 storey, 3 bay front, the left hand bay is advanced and separately gabled. Central planked door, set in a chamfered pointed surround and gabled with angle buttresses, above a blank trefoil, flanked by 3 light windows. To the first floor a single 2 light window. All windows have chamfered mullions, cornices, cast iron latticed bordered casements. To the right a square date panel inscribed AD 1847 in Roman numerals.

Listing NGR: TF0533416570