The School House

RADWAY TYSOE ROAD (North side)

SP3648 8/89

The School House

GV II

School and master's house, now house. Dated 1851. Built for and endowed by Charles Chambers. Ironstone ashlar. Tile roof with bands of fish scale tiles and ridge cresting; main roof has coped gable parapets with kneelers; stone stack. T-plan, with cross wing on right. Gothic Revival style. Former schoolroom on left is a single-storey, 3-window range. House: one storey and attic; one-window range. Entrance in angle has stone and painted wood glazed porch with archway and flanking trefoiled lights, all under straight head. Gable has large septfoiled triangle. Elaborate pierced cusped bargeboards. Left side has 3 trefoiled lights. Glazed spandrels throughout. Stone arched doorway inside has Gothic 4-panelled door with trefoil above. Schoolrs, all under straight head. Sable has large septfoiled triangle. Elaborate pierced cusped bargeboards. Left side has 3 trefoiled lights. Glazed spandrels throughout. Stone arched doorway inside has Gothic 4-panelled door with trefoil above. Schoolr hood moulds in gable. House has 3-light mullioned and transomed window with hood mould continued across wall as string course. 2-light mullioned window above has hood mould with foliage stops. All hood moulds carried further than usual down sides of windows. Datestone in apex of gable has quatrefoil panel with date and initials CC RN. Elaborate pierced and cusped bargeboards with quatrefoils and pendant. Right return side has slightly projecting gabled centre with offsets. 2-light mullioned window. First floor has single cinqfoiled lancet in straight head with hood mould and foliage stops. Apex of gable has heraldic quatrefoil panel. Stack of 3 chamfered square ashlar shafts with continuous cornice. Left and right sections have string course. Rear largely similar to front. Simple porch with catslide roof and plank door with small lancet glazed panel in right return side. House has 3-light mullioned windows, on ground floor with hood mould continued across wall. Interior not inspected. A good quality, well detailed and almost unaltered example.

Listing NGR: SP3685248066