Village School And Masters House

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CHUTE MALTHOUSE LANE, Chute SU35SW Standen 1381-0/10/10002 Village School and Master's House II

School and master's house, now village hall. 1857-8; by William White. Flint rubble with red brick dressings. Plain tile roof with gabled ends and half-hipped gables. Brick lateral, axial and gable-end stacks with set-offs and batters. PLAN: Three schoolrooms at right angles to each other and the master's house attached to the north east. Gothic Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: Single-storey schoolrooms and 1-storey and attic master's house. Asymmetrical gabled elevations. South front: Projecting gable on left with tall pointed-arch window and short angle-buttresses; gabled porch in the angle to the right with flanking weathered buttresses supporting gable with deep verges; two tall pointed-arch windows to right with buttress between, rising into small half-hipped gable with wrought-iron finial. West side: Gable on right with tall pointed arch window and large porch in angle on left with flanking weathered buttresses supporting gable with deep verges; gable set back on left with pointed arch window in gable with sexfoil light. East side: Master's House on right with two half-hipped dormers and windows with twin pointed-arch heads, gable set back on left with tall pointed arch window and porch in the angle with flanking weathered buttresses supporting gable with herring-bone infilling and deep verges. INTERIOR: Schoolrooms have arched-brace roofs, later suspended ceilings and folding partitions. SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 178.

Listing NGR: SU3087453838