Former Church of England First Schoo

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TQ 2550 SW 12/285

REIGATE WARRENNE WAY Former Church of England First School

(Formerly listed as Church of England First School, LONDON ROAD)

GV II Former school now converted into dwellings. 1854 by Henry Clutton; altered. Gault brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; roofs of plain tiles with decorative bands of pointed tiles (no banding to renewed front roof pitch of main range). One storey.

W-shaped plan, originally having boys' school in gabled left hand wing, girls' school in five bay front range, and infants' school in 1 x five bay gabled right hand wing which is set back and now linked to front range by small added block (formerly a pent-roofed porch). In Gothic style having: chamfered plinths; openings with two-centred arches and quoined surrounds, the windows with wood mullions and diamond-patterned glazing bars, the doors board with decorative hinges; gables each have a four-light window with slit vent over and barge boards with pendant finials.

Main elevation: on left, gabled end of wing projects and has offset diagonal buttress on left. Main range has central combined chimney and bell-tower with corniced brick stack on left of bellcote, flanked by three-light windows with skylights above. Link bay, set slightly back on right, has quoins on right, door, two-light window and coped parapet. Gabled right-hand wing: the window has lost the glazing bars. Right return: wing: offset buttress on left; central lateral stack with two two-light windows (glazing bars gone) to left one to right and gabled, ashlar porch to far right having square-headed one-light window in left return. Left return: 1:5 bays, left bay a lower, flat-roofed addition and as link bay at front. Wing has central lateral stack flanked by three-light windows; two skylights; brick addition in front of stack not of special interest.

Rear: on left, wing is of rubblestone brought to course, the window without glazing bars; set back on its right is added, parallel wing having inserted door, three-light segmental-arched window with occulus over, and two similar two-light windows to right return. Main range has two short, gabled wings projecting, flanking a stack, and each with a three-light segmental-arched window.

Listing NGR: TQ2509050416