School House

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10/19 School House (No.56) GV II

House, formerly 3 cottages. Late C18, and mid C19. Brick, timber frame, with a thatched roof. Plain cottage, with a larger L-shaped extension on the north end, in Tudor Cottage-Orne style. Front (east) of 2 storeys, 3 above 2 windows. The roof is ½-hipped at the south end, with exposed frame in the upper gable, at the north end there is a gable. The south side wall has red brickwork in Flemish bond, with cambered ground-floor opening: the centre and north side has an exposed frame, with some bold diagonal studding, the return face (north) also with diagonal studs, with infilling of herring bone brickwork, all on a brick plinth. Ground-floor casements to the front, the 3 upper lights being splayed oriels on carved brackets, with diagonal leaded lights. On the north elevation there is an oriel in the upper part of the gable, and below this a triangular bay beneath a deep thatched hood, with mullion and transoms and cast-rion diagonal lights; to the west side is a rectangular bay of similar details, with a framed gable and thatched hood, (merging with the low eaves of the rear wing). The doorway has a gabled hood on carved brackets, with a door of 3 above 3 panels; this design is repeated in the central entrance of the north elevation. The Tudor style continues on the gabled west face (of the rear wing), where it abuts the school.

Listing NGR: SU3284743503