The Old School And School House

BUCKLAND SUMMERSIDE ROAD SU3497 (South side) 8/81 The Old School and Schoolhouse 06/06/72 GV II

School and schoolhouse. 1856-7, by G.E. Street. Coursed limestone rubble, limestone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. One storey; 3 bay, 2:1 fenestration with gabled bay to right brought forward. Pointed arch over plank door adjoining right gable; mid C20 lean-to porch. Pierced lunette over three-light stone mullioned and transomed window with cusped heads to right gable; left front has similar window with trefoiled centre light in gabled half-dormer, 3-light mullioned window with cusped heads and two offset buttresses.Gabled roof with decorative ridge tiles, conical ventilator and iron bellcote with pyramidal roof; offset rear lateral stack. Similar 3-light window with cusped heads to left gable wall and similar transomed window set in gabled half dormer to right side wall. Late C19 gabled extension to rear in similar materials has 3-light mullioned and transomed window in gable wall; adjoining mid C20 extension in similar style has artificial stone walling and is built onto rear late C19 lean-to with plain pointed arch to doorway. To rear right is one and a half storey schoolhouse of 1856-7 built in similar style and materials to school with pointed arch over plank door; stack adjoining rear wall of school, gable end stack to rear and offset lateral stack to left. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SU3446997765