The Old School House

SK 2012-2112 EDINGALE C.P. SCHOOL LANE (west side)

10/37 The Old School House

• II

House and former schoolroom. Late C15 house with internal remodelling of the C17, minor alterations of the C18, extended in the early C19, restored circa 1980. Attached mid-C19 schoolroom. Timber framed house, large almost square panels with curved braces and brick infill, red brick schoolroom; plain tile roofs; brick integral end stacks. The house is T-shaped; single-bay former open hall aligned east-west facing north, now lobby-entry plan, and fully floored, single-bay parlour wing aligned north-south. A C19 kitchen wing extends from the south side of the hall range. The schoolroom is attached to the west end of the hall range and is on the same alignement. House to the left, schoolroom to the right. House: 2 storeys; gabled crosswing to the left, hall range to the right; 1:1 windows, C18 leaded glazing bar casements; C20 door to the right. Queen strut roof truss with one pair of trenched purlins. Schoolroom: one storey; 5-bay timber arcade on short brick wall to the left, blind gabled wing to the right. South elevation: house to the right, schoolroom to the left. House: 2 storeys; hall range to the left, crosswing to the right, C19 gabled kitchen wing to the right-hand side of the hall range; leaded glazing bar casements to hall range and kitchen wing, the crosswing has 2 C20 casements to the ground floor and one to the first floor. Schoolroom: one storey with eaves band; pilaster buttresses to each end and to left of centre, to the right of the latter are 3 French casements with segmental heads and cast iron glazing bars, to the left is a casement of similar type. Interior: the hall range has an inserted spine-beam and joists with ogee stopped chamfers; the west end of the spine beam is supported by the bressumer of a large open fireplace. The crosswing has a cross- beam with wide chamfer, to the north the joists are stopped and chamfered, to the south they are simply chamfered. This may indicate that the ground floor of the crosswing was originally partitioned along the line of the cross beam. The pattern of the joists indicates that before the remodelling of the open hall, the staircase was in the north-east corner of the wing.

Listing NGR: SK2107612141