The Old School

KENWYN SCHOOL LANE, Shortlanesend SW 84 NW 3/185 The Old School - II Board school now retail premises. 1876. Killas rubble with dressed freestone quoins, copings, sills, jambstones, mullions, arches and bellcote. Asbestos slate roof with coped gables and steep pyramidal stone roof to bellcote. 2 slender brick axial chimneys over cross walls. Plan of central school room with entrance lobby to left (north) with entrance under projecting bellcote plus classroom to each end in cross wings with projecting gable ends to front (west). Gothic style. Single storey. Nearly symmetrical west front with plinth unbalanced by belltower. 3-window nearly central schoolroom with taller central window rising to gabled dormer with stepped cusped lights (lower part removed C20 to make doorway), flanking 2-light windows with shouldered heads. Entrance through tall pointed arched doorway to porch, left of schoolroom, with bellcote over. Bellcote has 3 lights to each side with cornice below squat stone spire with crockets near apex. Identical projecting coped gables to cross wings far left and right each with stepped 3-light window with trefoil-headed lights and transoms between mullions. Some C20 render to gables. South wall has inscribed plaque within pointed arched niche pointed arched doorway with original door to right. Interior very simple but retains original scissor-braced pine roof structure. In spite of the recent alterations it still retains many of the gothic style features including the prominent bellcote.

Listing NGR: SW8077147608