Church House (Playschool)

BINGHAM EAST STREET SK 7039 (south side) 12/9 Church House (Playschool)

G.V. II

Church school and teacher's house. Now a playschool. 1845. By Scott and Moffatt for Canon Miles. Gothic Revival style. Brick with gabled plain and patterned tile roofs. Chamfered plinth, diaper work, chamfered eaves, coped gables with kneelers, terracotta finials and crosses. Ashlar dressings. 2 side wall, single ridge and single external gable stacks with shoulders and relief patterned octagonal stalks. Single and 2 storeys, 4 bays. Irregular L-plan. Windows are transomed lancets with hood moulds. North front has off-centre gabled wing with porch in each return angle. To left, 2 buttresses and 2 lancets. To right, gabled porch with diagonal buttress and four centred arched door. Above, shield inscribed 'AD 1845'. East side has 2 small lancets. To its right, quadruple lancet with single lancet above. To right again, porch with four centred arched door and above, shield inscribed 'Church Schools'. To its right, triple lancet. Above, cross-eaves gabled dormer with double lancets. West front has to left, buttress flanked by single lancets and crosslet in porch. To right, single lancet. South side has off- centre gabled wing flanked to left by late C19 lean-to addition, and to right, 2 C20 flat roofed additions. To left, C20 casement and door. To its right small gabled outbuilding with 3 C20 casements. Above, to left, 2 cross-eaves gabled dormers with single windows. To right, single lancet. East front has to left, 2 lancets. East gable has triple lancet and above, single lancet. Interior has four centred arched doors.

Listing NGR: SK7079039906