Old School

CLEOBURY MORTIMER

SO6775 VIOLS WALK 582-1/13/98 Old School 28/10/69 (Formerly Listed as: VIOLES WALK County Primary School)

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School, now house and 3 flats. 1863 with 1893 extension. By GE Street. Coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings, buff coloured brick extension. Slate roofs with ornamental clay ridge and ashlar coped gables with fleur-de-lys profiled ridge-roll. Projecting stone eaves chimneys with ashlar offsets, with ashlar shaft to left and later brick shaft to centre and shaft missing to right. PLAN: plan of main central range with cross wing each end and parallel rear wing. Flats located in former single-storey accommodation to left with house in original 2-storey range to right. EXTERIOR: south front with 3 gables to central range each with tall mullion and transom windows with pointed head with foiled tracery and hoodmould. Stack dividing gables at centre left, projecting lean-to entrance porch to left with depressed arched opening. Projecting cross wing gable to left with tall pointed 3-light window with foiled intersecting tracery and hoodmould. Cross wing gable to right with 4/4 and 8/8 sash at first floor over 10/10 sash at ground-floor level, each with chamfered stone lintel with relieving arch over, partly covered to left with turret with conical roof, curved mullion and transom window at first-floor level over curved pointed arched doorway. Right return side: stone stack to left, and sashes in former mullioned window position under raised dormer window to right. Left return side: stone stack to right, with 2-light stone mullion window with cusped lancet head infill with chamfered stone lintel to left. To far left is brick extension wing with gabled side incorporating stepped triple lancet window with multi-pane casement glazing with date plaque over. Rear: to right is north gable end of brick extension with pointed arched window at high level. To centre is parallel wing with 3 stone mullion and transom windows and pointed arched doorway with stone mullion window over, with gable end to right with trefoil over 4-light mullion and transom windows with cusped top-lights. To left is cross wing gable end with 10/10 sash with chamfered stone lintel at first floor and lean-to extensions below. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO6731375971