School House Adjoining Parish Room And Garden Wall To Front With Gatepiers

ST 76 SW 8/154 1.2.56

NEWTON ST. LOE School House adjoining Parish Room and Garden Wall to Front with Gatepiers (formerly listed as Free School)

G.V. II

Free school, now a house and parish room. Dated 1698, restored and extended (parish room) 1911. Coursed rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, plain and fish-scale tiled roof with coped raised verges. 2 storeys and attics. Five 2-light casement windows in ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds and under continuous dripmoulds. Central studded and panelled door with strap hinges, in bolection moulded surround and under a semi-circular hood on carved consoles. Over the door are arms and an inscription which reads: "This Free Schoole was built and/Endowed att the charge of RICHARD/JONES of Stowey in the County of/Somerset-Esq. Anno Dmni 1698". Underneath it reads "RESTORED CORONATION YEAR. 1911". At the left is the Parish Room. 2- and 4-light cross window in ovolo moulded surrounds. Projecting gabled porch with outer moulded and 4-centre headed archway. Coped, rubble front garden wall with 2 sets of square ashlar gatepiers with moulded caps and ball finials.

Listing NGR: ST7015364853