Ladock School And School House Including Schoolhouse Boundary Wall To Se

LADOCK CHURCH LANE SW 85 SE 1/32 Ladock School and School House - including schoolhouse boundary wall to SE

GV II

School and school house. Plaque inscribed 1867. RE and MAH Wise (patrons). Shale rubble and granite dressings with slate and asbestos slate roofs. Schoolroom symmetrical with 2 linked wings at back. School house L-shaped. All in medieval vernacular style. Schoolroom is single storey of 2 bays, each with a 6-light granite mullioned window (old photographs show smaller windows). Central door with wooden porch on stone plinths which has segmental arch with roundels in spandrels. Decorated gable on brackets over. Asbestos slate roof with 4 C20 skylights (originally gabled dormers) with brick gable chimney to left. Schoolhouse gable front of 2 storeys projects slightly. Central 3 light mullioned window with pointed arched centre light to ground floor. 3-light flat headed mullioned window with original leaded glazing to first floor, both with relieving arches. Laterial stone stack adjoins schoolhouse gable. Right-hand return wall has shouldered headed doorway with relieving arch and cross in tympanum. First floor has plaque with relieving arch to left and hipped dormer overdoor. South wall of later wing has window like south gable ground floor with flat headed 4 light mullion over. Slate roofs with stone gable chimney to right. Interiors undistinguished. Wall with gateway adjoining schoolhouse has pointed arch in freestone. Reused steps under.

Listing NGR: SW8949750979