Old School House

HARLAXTON SK8832 CHURCH STREET 1315-0/14/142 (West side (off)) 24/09/79 No.16 Old School House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Chimo Cottage, Old School and the Old School House) GV II

School and school house, now a house. Mid C19, probably incorporating fragments of an earlier building, with late C20 alterations. Ground floor red brick and coursed squared stone, with sham timber framing and rendered nogging above. Pantile and slate roofs with a brick ridge stack with carved brick coped flue, and various other stacks with coped terracotta flues. Tudor Revival style. 2 storeys; 5 bays. L-plan. Windows are mainly C20 glazing bar casements. To left, an open timber framed gallery with splat balustrade, and below it, a 2-light casement and a wood cased lead water pump. To left, a square external stack with stone base and ashlar flue. To right, a square external brick stack, flanked by 2 casements, the largest to the left. Below, flanking the stack, small single windows witch diamond pane glazing, then C20 2-light casements. Beyond, to left, a plank door with ornamental hinges, and to right, another diamond paned window. Left gable has a C20 to casement and is topped with a gabled square wooden bellcote. At the rear, a square external brick stack with double,flues. Rear wing has a smaller side wall stack. This building is one of those remodelled c1820-1840 by Gregory Gregory, Lord of the Manor of Harlaxton, following the precepts of JC Loudon. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 361-362; Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).

Listing NGR: SK8831432602