Lucton School

LUCTON CP - SO 46 SW

5/33 Lucton School

11.6.59

• II*

School. 1708, extended 1886. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof. U-plan, front range aligned north-west/south-east contains central entrance hall, office to south, headmaster's room to south. Rear wings to south-west, the northern one containing kitchens, the south a dining room. North-east front: two storeys with attic lit by two hipped dormers. Chamfered ashlar quoins, moulded stone cornice and brick band to ground floor. 2 + 3 + 2 bays, the central portion slightly advanced with pediment bearing a painted clockface inscribed: "IP/ 1708", within a scrolled frame. The windows have boxed glazing bar sashes, the boxes with light mould- ings. Central bay contains a niche with semi-circular head containing a painted stone statue of the founder, John Pierrepont, almost life-size. Ground floor windows are 15-pane boxed sashes under segmental heads. Entrance has a semi-domed wooden canopy resting on carved and scrolled brackets. The roof is crowned by a central wooden bell turret of square plan with arched openings, cornice and ogee-shaped lead roof. The wrought iron weathervane is dated 1708. South-east front has a datestone set in a rebuilt chimney stack inscribed: "Ex sumptibus/ Johannes Pierrepont/ Ano Domi MDCCVII". Interior: entrance hall has large rectangular panelling with shallow moulding and stone bolection moulded fireplace. Office has similar panelling. Fireplace with ovolo moulding and small terminating scrolls. Headmaster's room has painted bolection moulded panelling and bolected moulded fireplace. Staircase behind this room has turned balusters, moulded handrail and moulded string. It ascends to the attics. The Dining Room has C18 panelling at the upper end. It-also contains a memorial to John Pierrepont, died 1711, removed from Lucton Church in1975. Most of the first floor has dado panelling and panelled doors. (BoE, pp 242-3; RCHM 3, PP 137-8).

Listing NGR: SO4380764497