School House

TM 26 NW 5/131

WORLINGWORTH SHOP STREET School House

II

House, at one time a shop and The Crown public house. Mid C17. Timber framed, mainly plastered; right gable end and two-thirds of rear is cased in late C19 red brick. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. 2 windows, C18 3- light mullion and transom casements with old square-leaded glass; window boxes. Ground floor has 2 slightly splayed projecting shop windows with small square panes, carried on raking brackets; the windows are grooved for external shutters. Between these is a lobby entrance with 6-panel door (upper 2 panels glazed). A plaintiled lean-to hood extends across the facade at first floor level. Internal stack with C19 panelled square shaft. Left gable end has original 4-light first floor window with ovolo mullions. Against this gable end is a C19 stack. 2-cell internal layout. At the left end is a small one- bay room. On the ground floor this room has an axial bridging beam: to the rear are plain joists set flat; to the front, an oak newel stair and a later straight stair. The adjacent room has 2 bridging beams, ovolo-moulded on the ground floor, chamfered on the upper floor. At a later date a stack has been inserted into the centre of this room, an unusual arrangement perhaps suggesting the house has been reduced in size. Plain first floor studding with trimming for original windows. Roof has 2 rows of diminished butt purlins, the lower row stepped.

Listing NGR: TM2213168451