Worfield Church Of England Primary School

SO 79 NE WORFIELD Worfield Church of England Primary School 823/16/10035

GV II

School and masters' houses. 1846; extended in 1874 and late C20. Rock-faced red sandstone. Plain tile roofs with bands of scalloped tiles, crested ridge-tiles and stone-coped gable-ends with corbelled kneelers. Lateral, axial and gable-end stone stacks with set-offs and red brick shafts. PLAN: T -shaped plan original school, comprising two schoolrooms at right-angles to each other with the school master's house at south end of the west cross-wing. In 1874 a cross-wing containing two schoolrooms was built, in the same style, at the east end, another school-master's house was added to the south side and an office was built on the porch at the north end of the west cross-wing. Late in the C20 a cloakroom and lavatory extension was built on the east side of the east cross-wing; this is not of special interest. Post-Medieval Gothic style. EXTERIOR: Single-storey schoolrooms. North front: main range with central canted stone bay window with 2-light mullion-transom window to left and right and buttresses in between, gabled cross-wing to right with diagonal corner buttresses and smaller cross-gabled office in front; to left 1874 wing with single-light transomed windows on inner side with buttresses between and 3-light mullion-transom window in gable end; porch in link between with arched doorway with hoodmould with headstops and plank double-doors. West side: four 2-light mullion-transom windows with buttresses in between and gabled cross-wing on right [master's house] with stone oriel with battlements and moulded corbel on large pilaster between two cross-mullion-transom windows; right-hand [south return] 3 mullion-transom windows, double-chamfered 4-centred arch doorway at centre with plank door and three gabled stone dormers; single-storeylink to another master's house on right, two bays with gable on right and stone-mullion windows. Casement windows with small panes. INTERIOR: Schoolrooms now ceiled, but originally open to roofs with arch-braced trusses with curved braces to the king-posts. Two-bay Gothic arcade between schoolrooms in centre range and west wing; partitions removed from east cross-wing; small simple Gothic chimneypieces. Plain stick-baluster staircase in south-east master's house.

Listing NGR: SO7591495671