School House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. School, house.
School House
- WRENN ID
- silent-chapel-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- School, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a former school and school house built around 1860. It features a combination of flint, gault brick, and stone dressings, topped with slate roofs. The building has an irregular plan and is designed in the Gothic Revival style, with the school being single storey and the house two storeys high.
The west facade includes diagonal buttresses at all corners, a single storey gabled extension at the northern end with a four-light Gothic window that has cusped heads and a rectangular hood mould. There is a slightly advanced stack next to the extension with an octagonal shaft. A gabled porch features a two-centred arched entrance with a door that has wooden blind tracery, and there is a four-light Gothic window nearby. The southern end has a two-storey advancement with two-light and three-light Gothic windows, and an internal stack on the northern face of this section has two octagonal shafts.
On the south facade, there is a two-storey advancement to the east with two and three-light Gothic windows. A panelled Gothic door is located beneath a gabled hood with decorative barge board, and there are two octagonal chimney shafts. The north gable end of the school features a five-light panel traceried window and a clock face at the apex of the gable. The building also has various extensions at the rear.
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