Engineering Works

SP 9435-9535 ASPLEY GUISE WOBURN LANE 7/28 Engineering Works (former National School) GV II Former National School, now engineering works. 1847-50 by Richard Sheppard of Newport Pagnell, founded by the Rev. John Vaux Moore. Coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings. Clay fishscale tile roofs. Loosely Tudor in style. One storey and one storey and attics. Rectangular block with roughly central projecting gable. LH bay has doorway to LH and one 3-light mullioned window to each floor of RH. Upper window rises through eaves level into gabled dormer. Small gabled block projects from LH. Projecting gable has large 4- light mullion and transom window with moulded label. Above this is small louvred single light. Gable surmounted by small bellcote. RH bay has small projecting gable to centre, with 2-light mullioned window under moulded label. Flanking this gable are 2 3-light mullion and transome windows. All windows have ornamental cast iron casements in hexagonal pattern. All gables have stone coping and kneelers. Ridge and gable end stacks to LH bay with ornamental moulded pots. Woburn Sands and District Society: The Story of Aspley Guise, 1980 pp. 19, 57-9: Beds Record Office: 3865/4, Plan of the National School, 1847.

Listing NGR: SP9434835655