Former Church of England First Schoo is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1989. School.
Former Church of England First Schoo
- WRENN ID
- sharp-grate-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1989
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Church of England First School, dating to 1854 and designed by Henry Clutton, with subsequent alterations. It is now converted into dwellings. The structure is primarily gault brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings, and has roofs of plain tiles with decorative bands of pointed tiles, although the front roof pitch of the main range has been renewed without the original banding.
The building follows a 'W' shape, originally housing a boys' school in a gabled left wing, a five-bay front range for the girls' school, and an infants' school in a set-back, five-bay gabled right wing, now linked to the front range by a small, added block which was formerly a pent-roofed porch. The design is in the Gothic style and features chamfered plinths, openings with two-centred arches and quoined surrounds. The windows have wood mullions and diamond-patterned glazing bars, while the doors are boarded with decorative hinges. Each gable contains a four-light window with a slit vent above and barge boards with pendant finials.
The main elevation has a projecting gabled end on the left with an offset diagonal buttress. The main range features a central chimney and bell-tower, with a corniced brick stack and a bellcote, flanked by three-light windows with skylights above. A linking bay, slightly set back on the right, has quoins, a door, a two-light window, and a coped parapet. The gabled right-hand wing has lost its glazing bars. The right return features an offset buttress, a central lateral stack, two two-light windows where the glazing bars are missing, and a gabled, ashlar porch with a square-headed one-light window in the left return. The left return has a lower, flat-roofed addition and mirrors the link bay at the front.
The rear elevation includes a wing of rubblestone brought to course, lacking glazing bars, and an added, parallel wing with an inserted door, a three-light segmental-arched window with an occulus, and two similar two-light windows on the right return. The main range has two short, gabled wings flanking a stack, each with a three-light segmental-arched window.
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