The Old School

WELLESBOURNE

SP25SE WALTON 1901-1/5/185 The Old School

GV II

School, now house. c1860. By Sir George Gilbert Scott. For Sir John Mordaunt. Brick with ashlar dressings; gabled slate roofs with truncated brick cross-axial stacks. PLAN: single storey with attic; 2-storey cross-wing to each end. EXTERIOR: flush bands of ashlar and brick and ashlar coped gables; centre has roof carried down over verandah on posts with cusped braces. 2 entrances under verandah have banded segmental-pointed arches flanking 2 lights with ashlar lintels. Wings have windows with stop-chamfered mullions and banded voussoirs, most with leaded glazing; wing to left has segmental-pointed head to 3-light window with banded tympanum; first floor has similar 2-light window; wing to right has 2 pointed 2-light windows with roundels to tympanum; round window above has plate tracery with 4 roundels. Central gabled dormer has 2 lights under lintel band and gabled bellcote; stack to right and to left wing. Rear has similar details: windows to centre with mullions and banded voussoirs; and one to wing to right over lean-to outshut; wing to left has straight-headed mullioned window to lower gabled wing; central flat-roofed 2-light dormer probably later. Small later gabled addition to right end. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of a group of estate cottages and other buildings. (Hamilton, E: The Old House at Walton: Salisbury: 1988-: 232).

Listing NGR: SP2848853116