The Old School House

TL 87 SE TROSTON THE STREET (WEST SIDE)

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GV II

Former school house. Built in 1873, at the expense of Robert Emlyn Lofft of Troston Hall, in a Gothic style to match the adjacent village school. Single storey: half-H plan, with 2 wings north and south extending to the rear, and projecting slightly in front. Brick: 4 courses of red bricks alternating with one course of black-faced bricks, all with moulded faces: plain black-faced bricks to rusticated quoins and window surrounds: high brick copings to gables. Plaintiled roofs, with bands of fishscale tiles, and fluted ridge tiles. 3 internal chimney-stacks: 2 to front range each have one shaft of moulded brick with a plain shaft behind it. The front has 2 2-light casement windows in rectangular surrounds of chamfered brick, with a small circular window in the gable above: both circular windows and the north casement window have been blocked with flush panels of random knapped flint. There are also flint panels on each side of the central doorway, which contains a C20 half-glazed door, flanked by 2 small windows.

Listing NGR: TL8970372249