Hook With Warsash Infants School

SU 40 NE CHURCH ROAD HOOK WITH WARSASH (west side)

27/504 Hook with Warsash Infants' School

GV II

School. 1871 by R Brandon for A Hornby (of the Hook Estate); altered. Rock- faced rubblestone with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles. T-shaped plan. One storey, 4 bays, the main range at rear having roof coming down as catslide over open porches which flank wing, the right-hand porch altered late C2Q; the central wing has hipped roof and lower hipped-roofed bays at either side in the angles with main range. Quoins to angles and surrounds of openings; offset butresses; roll-moulded sill string-hollow moulded eaves band. West front: windows of 2 shouldered-headed lights; central timber-framed clock tower with decorative borded-in tracery and corbelled gable; 2 metal roof vents. Returns each have a stepped, triple lancet window and pointed-arched doorway at rear, the sill string rising over it as a hoodmould; right return has corbelled gable protecting bell. Rear: wing has window of 3 shouldered-headed lights and later door, the side-bays each a 2-light window under hoodmould, and left bay a segmental-arched doorway into proch; roof vents; ashlar ridgestack to wing. The school is part of the group of church (qv), school and schoolhouse (qv, no 130) which Hornby built to serve the 2 villages of Hook and Warsash. S Hall, Fareham, Past and Present (1974). Pevsner and Lloyd, Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1973).

Listing NGR: SU4973705859