Old School House And Attached Outbuilding

SO 37 SE; 12/18

BUCKNELL C.P., THE CAUSEWAY (north side), Old School House and attached outbuilding

GV

II

Farmhouse, latterly school and shop, now divided into two cottages. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber-framed with rendered and painted brick infill, partly roughcast and part weatherboarded; slate roofs. L-plan consisting of long hall range, aligned north-south, with single-bay cross-wing (also gabled to south) projecting to east at south end. Two storeys. Framing: exposed to west side of hall range; square panels to left of stack, four from sill to wall-plate, partly replaced by painted brick to ground floor. Close-set vertical posts to first floor to right of stack with large irregular square panels below. Irregular fenestration; five C20 casements directly below eaves to left of stack, one to left and four grouped together to right; five C20 windows to ground floor. Prominent gabled half-dormer to right of stack has a late C19 casement to centre with a small leaded casement directly below eaves. Late C20 casement to ground floor. Red brick ridge stack to right of centre with lean-to rubblestone bread oven directly below. East side has 2-storey lean-to abutting, formerly with external wooden steps, now clad with C20 weatherboarding. Twin gables to road with bay windows [former shop fronts (right canted)] to left and right of C19 half-glazed door under bracketed gabled hood. Late C19 casement on first floor to each gable. Full-height brick lean-to against north wall of cross-wing, which has timber framed square panels exposed; external red brick end stack to gable. Outbuilding: attached to north gable end of hall range. Late C17. Weatherboarded timber frame with corrugated iron roof. Interior of house. Chamfered ceiling beams to ground-floor rooms with timber framed square panels exposed to one of cross walls of hall range; close-set vertical posts partly visible on first floor. Parts of wall posts and collar and tie beam trusses also exposed to hall range. Wide boarded oak floor boards to first-floor rooms. Outbuilding has collar and tie-beam end truss to right with V-struts from collar.

Listing NGR: SO3557873885