The Old Grammar School, Number 4, And Attached Wall, Gate And Steps

SK 77 SW TUXFORD LINCOLN ROAD (south side)

5/74 The Old Grammar School, No.4, 28.2.52 and attached wall, gate and steps.

G.V. II*

School, now library, offices and domestic accommodation, and attached wall, gate and steps. Dated 1669. Reorganised late C18. Red brick, ashlar and iron. Bell canted hipped pantile roof. Sprocket eaves. Single rendered central ridge stack. Set on a moulded brick plinth with brick quoins. 2 storeys plus attic, 5 bays. First floor band. Central doorway. Double wooden panelled and part glazed door dated 1757 in wooden frame. Flanked by single rusticated brick pilasters with painted orb finials. to the right are 2 glazing bar sashes and to the left a single similar sash and further left a single slightly recessed panel with painted glazing bars. Between the 2 right sashes is a bell in wood and pantile frame with C20 plaque below. Above are 4 smaller glazing bar sashes with central shaped and painted panel inscribed "1669 Ingredere Ut Proficias Condita Disciplinae Charitatique Desigrata A Carola Read. What God Hath Built Let Not Man Destroy. Faxit". Over is a moulded and painted segmental floating hood mould. In the attic are 3 box dormers each with single C20 casement. To the rear is a projecting C18 stair turret. Attached to the front right of the building is a buttressed red brick wall with moulded coping, one and a half metres high. This extends north for 7 metres, meets a brick pier with damaged, shaped ashlar coping, turns at a right angle drops down to 1 metre high and extends for a further 23 metres east, meets a brick pier and turns south extending 7 metres at a height of one a half metres. The north wall is broken in the centre by a pair of brick piers with shaped ashlar coping. There is a central single decorative wrought iron gate flanked by single similar narrow screens which slope upwards to meet the piers. 3 semi-circular stone steps lead down to the pavement. Interior has chamfered beams. There are 2 boards dated 1706 outlining guidelines for conduct within the school. Interior of the stair turret contains an open well stair with C17 turned balusters. The Grammar School was founded in 1669 by Charles Read who also founded the Grammar School at Corby, Lincs, 1673.

Listing NGR: SK7371871033