Old School House

CHURCH PREEN C.P. HUGHLEY ROAD SO 59 NE 8/27 Old School House 2.7.71 II School, now house. 1872 by Richard Norman Shaw. Timber framed and coursed limestone rubble, machine tile roofs. T-plan with school to right and gabled former schoolmaster's accommodation to left. One storey to school, 2 storeys to house; timber framed gable supported on carved wooden brackets; one 6-light wooden mullion window on first floor of gable with 5-light stone mullion window below to right, pointed doorway to left; school has 2 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights extending up as tile-hung dormers projecting through roof slope, pointed doorway to right; right gable end with 3-light cusped window to first floor and 5-light mullion window below to right; prominent tall red brick ridge stack with coupled shafts to left of school range. The school was built at the expense of the local landowner, Arthur Sparrow. Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw (1976), p.408.

Listing NGR: SO5549397582