The Old Boys School And Schoolhouse And Attached Privies

SK 03 NW LEIGH C.P. CHURCH LEIGH

2/136 The Old Boys School - and Schoolhouse and attached privies

• II Former School and schoolmaster's house, and privies. Dated 1857. By G.E. Street. Red brick with blue brick decoration and ashlar dressings; plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles; brick ridge stack and brick integral lateral stacks. School room aligned east-west with wing projecting from east end of south front to form an L-plan, L-shaped schoolmaster's house attached to west with south projecting wing, and stair turret in angle with schoolroom; privies attached to north-east corner of building; C13 style Gothic details. South elevation: Schoolmaster's house and stair turret to left, schoolroom to right. Schoolmaster's house: 2-storey wing with first floor string and hipped roof, incorporating truncated stair turret to right hand side; roughly 2 bays, windows have colonette mullions and trefoil-headed lights, 3 lights to ground floor left with naturalistic foliage (oak leaves and acorns) to capitals of-mullions, 2 lights to first floor left with stiff leaf capitals to mullions, one light to first floor right, ground floor of stair turret has a 2-light straight -headed window; pointed door to right of centre- and buttress between it and the stair turret. Kitchen range to left with lateral stack partly screened by low wall stepped down to the left. Schoolroom: Gabled wing to right has pointed window with sill band, containing 4 trefoil-headed lights and plate traceried quatrefoil over; main range to left has central gabled dormer window of 3 lights; porch with lean-to roof fills the space between stair turret and right hand wing, board door to left of centre, fixed light windows to each side. C20 single-storey flat-roof brick extension to right. East able: pointed door to left with original hinges and latch, and hood mould stepped down on right to a string course; central pointed window of 4 lights with quatrefoil plate tracery over. North elevation: Schoolmaster's house to right, schoolroom to left. Schoolmaster's house has 2-storey gabled wing to left and single-storey range to right, windows with trefoil- headed lights, those to wing have stiff leaf capitals to colonette mullions, ground floor window has 4 lights, those to first floor left and right have 2 lights, window to right hand range has 3 lights and chamfered mullions; schoolroom has 2 windows, one of 4 lights to left of centre and one of 2 lights to right. Single-storey extension to right of schoolmaster's house. Interior: schoolroom has arch braced collar roof with king post over, supporting a plank ridge, one pair of purlins; internal doors have decorative wrought iron hinges, front door has original latch. An attractive building interesting as an early example of Street's use of polychrome brickwork.

Listing NGR: SK0232936066