Elstow Lower School

ELSTOW

179/0/10007 HIGH STREET 19-AUG-03 Elstow Lower School

II Board School, now Lower School, with integral school master's house. Dated 1873. Yellow brick with stone, red and brown brick dressings. Tiled pitched and gabled roofs. 2 parallel ranges with gables to front and rear. EXTERIOR: FRONT elevation with wide gable to left and central gable with raised gablet, then advanced dormer bay and further end bay. To left, advanced wide gable has central window with stone mullion window of 4 lights over 4 tall sashes, under brown brick pointed relieving arch, with tall corbelled chimneystack to right side of roof then doorway under red brick arch. To right, central gable with stone framed window of 4 sashes to top and bottom. Above this, brown brick pointed arch that reads: 'PASSING RAPIDLY USE HOURS WISELY HAPPILY', with clock under arch and stone cross gable vent above; apex has additional raised gable with hollow arch and corbelled shoulders. Tall corbelled chimneystack. Right of centre, dormer with corbelled shoulders and first floor 2-light stone window, projected over canted ground floor bay with stone frame cross frame window. To far right, stone cross window under stone vent, then rounded entrance within catslide outshut. LEFT return elevation with 4 light stone cross frame window then 2 gables, that to left advanced, and each with 4-light stone cross frame window. RIGHT elevation of red brick, with chimneystack to right gable. REAR elevation also red brick and has domestic wing to left with C20 windows in with plain stone lintels and cills. School projects further back with large stone cross frame window to gable at left, and single-storey red brick range with flat roof and paired sashes in stone surrounds. INTERIOR: Brick partition walls. Inserted ceilings obscure original roof structure. Group value with Elstow War Memorial (q.v.) to forecourt. Early-C20 ranges to rear not included in the listing.