High Gilston

TL 4412 GILSTON GILSTON LANE (east side)

9/5 High Gilston

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GV II

Village school, now a house. '1856' on quatrefoil datestone on porch. For William Hodgson as part of Gilston Park Estate. Gothic ornamental red brick small village school facing W, now a. house. Steep old red tile roofs with tall moulded chimneys at junction of tall single storey schoolroom on N and 2 storeys cross wing on S. Tall chimney shafts unusually grouped into 2 elongated octagonal shafts above moulded base. Steep gabled, bargeboarded porch projecting in angle of wings. Front wall decorated with black headers in diamond and diaper patterns. Heavy scissors bargeboards to porch, trefoil pierced and central moulded pandant. More elaborate pierced and cusped bargeboard and pendant to cross wing. 2-light and 3-light tall timber mullioned windows with gauged arches, flush stone sills and diamond lattice cast iron windows survive in cross wing. Schoolroomconverted to one and a half storeys with box dormer and small paned sash windows. Porch doorway altered to window. Built as a Public Elementary School (mixed) for 39 children (Kelly (1914) 105). Founded by William Hodgson and in use 1856- 1959 (WEA III (1970) 65). A handsome C19 Gothic schoolhouse in the style of the Gilston Park Estate buildings under the Hodgson brothers but with added elaboration in the bargeboards and the diaper work in black headers. Part of a picturesque group of estate buildings with School Cottages (1852) to S.

Listing NGR: TL4454912757