Springfield Cottage

YARCOMBE ST 20 NE 8/176 Springfield Cottage - - II House, formerly a small school and master's house. Dated 1875 built at the expense of Sir Francis Drake (sic.). Local stone and flint rubble laid to rough courses; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; slate roof. Plan: 3-room plan house facing south-east. The centre and left end (south-west) rooms are the former master's house. The left end room has a gable-end stack and the centre room has an axial stack backing onto the entrance hall and main stair. The right end room ws the former schoolroom. The house is 2 storeys and the former schoolroom is open to the roof. There is now (1987) a fourth room under construction at the left end. Exterior: irregular 4-window front. The 3-window section of the former masters house has original casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass (and one on the ground floor has a pattern of C20 leaded glass). The schoolroom has a full height timber 3-light mullion and transom window with a Gothic pattern of glazing bars. The front doorway is right of centre and it contains the original 2-panel doorway in which the panels are diagonal planks. The roof is gable-ended. In the rignt gable end there is another tall timber mullion-and-transom window but this one has only plain glazing bars. Above it is an inscribed Beerstone plaque recording the building of the school in 1875 by Sir Francis Drake. Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST2502309975