The Old School And School House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1972. School, schoolhouse.
The Old School And School House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-belfry-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1972
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and Schoolhouse is a building constructed between 1856 and 1857 by G.E. Street. It features coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The structure is one storey high and consists of three bays with a 2:1 fenestration, including a gabled bay to the right that is brought forward. There is a pointed arch over a plank door next to the right gable, along with a mid-20th century lean-to porch.
On the right gable, there is a pierced lunette above a three-light stone mullioned and transomed window with cusped heads. The left front has a similar window with a trefoiled centre light in a gabled half-dormer, as well as a three-light mullioned window with cusped heads and two offset buttresses. The gabled roof is adorned with decorative ridge tiles, a conical ventilator, and an iron bellcote with a pyramidal roof, along with an offset rear lateral stack.
The left gable wall features a similar three-light window with cusped heads, and there is a similar transomed window set in a gabled half-dormer on the right side wall. At the rear, there is a late 19th-century gabled extension built with similar materials, which includes a three-light mullioned and transomed window in the gable wall. An adjoining mid-20th century extension, also in a similar style, has artificial stone walling and is built onto a late 19th-century lean-to that has a plain pointed arch doorway.
To the rear right is a one and a half storey schoolhouse, built in the same style and materials as the school, also dating from 1856-7. It features a pointed arch over a plank door, with a stack against the rear wall of the school, a gable end stack at the rear, and an offset lateral stack to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
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