Former Free School

SO 5095-5195 CARDINGTON C.P. CARDINGTON 12/17 Former Free School 13.6.58 (formerly listed as Old Free School)

GV II

School, now part of larger house. Circa 1720. Red brick with grey sandstone dressings, including dressed sandstone plinth with coursed brown sandstone rubble foundations exposed to south-east; plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Tall chamfered plinth, stone plat band, and parapeted gable ends with chamfered stone copings and shaped kneelers; integral brick lateral stack to south-east. North-west (churchyard) front: 3-windows; first-floor 2-light leaded wooden casements, and ground- floor leaded wooden cross-windows with stone lintels (blocked with brick up to transom level); probably later blocked doorway to left (see straight joints) with small inserted casement; stone plaque above central ground-floor window inscribed:"FREE SCHOOL". South-east front: 2 first-floor 2-light leaded wooden casements to left and one single- light leaded casement to right; 2 ground-floor leaded wooden cross- windows to left with stone lintels. South-west gable end has first- floor wooden cross-window (C20 replacement - see cill) with brick band above and ground-floor boarded door (lowered at some time - see blocked opening above with lintel). Interior not inspected. The school was first endowed by William Hall in 1720 and again by John Russel in 1813. The former Free School now forms part of a larger house with No. 19 (q.v.) adjoining to north-east. Kelly's Directory of Shropshire (1885), p.819.

Listing NGR: SO5065395123