Old School House (Post Office And Sean Feeney Furniture Maker)

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SP2049 Nos.19 AND 20 1912-1/12/137 Old School House (Post Office and Sean Feeney, Furniture Maker)

GV II

School, now shop, workshop and 2 houses. 1848. For James Roberts West of Alscot Park. Brick with ashlar dressings; fishscale tile roof with enriched cresting and brick lateral stacks with diagonal shafts. H-plan. EXTERIOR: single-storey centre with 2-storey end wings. Wide eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Centre has entrance to each end in gabled porch with door set in Tudor-arched opening, inner entrances have 4-centred arches and 4-panel doors; 3 windows have offset sills and chamfered reveals and ashlar lintels, 4:2:4-light transomed casements with leaded glazing; 2 triangular louvred openings and bellcote to ridge with enriched gable to each side and wind vane. Central panel with inscription and date. Each gabled wing has inner lateral stacks; windows have ashlar sills and lintels, and leaded glazing: 1:2:1-light transomed canted bay under hipped roof and window with cross-casement above. Each outer return is a 3-window range with gabled wing to rear end and gabled porch; windows with cross-casements, and single and 2-light casements; left return has clock-face to gable. Rear has varied gabled wings and stacks. Part of a model estate village. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Darley G: Villages of Vision: London: 1975-: 298).

Listing NGR: SP2043749835