6, High Street

SU 3278 4/37

LAMBOURN HIGH STREET (east side) No 6

11.4.72

II Former School, now dwelling. Mid C19, by G.E Street. One and a half storeys. Old tile roof, decorative ridge tiles. Red brick with blue brick bands. Large gable to left with parapet and stone coping and finial. Modern garage door cut into face.

Three small gables with parapets and stone coping and finials to right over first floor windows. Paired casements with pointed heads, divided by stone column with leaf capital and under single pointed brick arch picked out in blue brick. Patterned blue brick band at first floor. Ground floor two pointed headed doorways with boarded doors, alternated with two pairs of windows as first floor, but under larger pointed arches with blue brick decoration and bands at springing.

Rear wings: two school rooms at right angles to High Street. One storey brick, with stone dressings, slate roofs, parapet gables, moulded stone eaves cornice. Mullioned and transomed windows flanking central door. Stone surround, flat pointed head under label mould with tracery in spandrels. Stone tablet over. Gable wall has VR MDCCCL in blue bricks.

Listing NGR: SU3262478843