Former Great Bookham Country Junior School

The former Great Bookham Country Junior School, dating from 1856-8, was designed by William Butterfield. It has been converted into a library and private dwelling. The building is constructed of knapped flint with red brick bands and window surrounds, with some timber framing in the gables, and has a red tile roof. It comprises a school building with a master’s house, arranged on a north-south axis, with the school hall positioned on a lateral axis in the centre, and the house forming the south end. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival, characterised by steeply-pitched roofs. The school and house sections are largely the same height, with the gable end of the hall projecting slightly on both the east and west facades. Each projecting gable features a large transomed 8-light window with a broad rendered surround and an ornamental half-timbered gable; the east gable incorporates diagonal braces and wavy bargeboards. The east front of the master's house has a central 2-storey gabled porch with glazed double doors at ground floor and half-timbering at the first floor, alongside tall windows of 1, 1, and 2 lights with depressed triangular heads. An added 1st-floor bathroom is attached to the right-hand side of the porch, beneath a carried-down roof supported by brick piers. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped at the south end, with two tall chimneys set along the ridge. Large additions in a similar style extend along the school range on the east side. On the west side, the school range north of the hall includes a tall window rising into a hipped dormer and some segmental-headed windows, all with small diamond-lattice glazing. The master’s house has a narrow gabled bay breaking the eaves, featuring casements of 3 lights at ground floor and 2 lights above, a timber-framed gable, a 1-light window, and a 4-pane sash at ground floor, with a 2-light casement in a gabled half-dormer above. The interior was not inspected. Alterations were made in the 20th century.