Drakes Church Infant And Junior School

EAST BUDLEIGH MIDDLE STREET, East Budleigh SY 0684 8/112 Drakes Church Infant and Junior - School GV II School and master's house. Circa 1862 with late C19 - early C20 extensions. Red brick with limestone ashlar detail; slate roof. The school faces west and comprises the schoolmasters house, 2-rooms deep with left lateral stack, which is built gable end onto the front. On either side, set back from the front are 3-bay wings that make up the school and there are porches on each gable end. Later in the C19 the schoolmasters house was extended back 1 more room with another lateral stack and behind the right (southern) end there is a late C19- early C20 extension at right angles and it ash an outer lateral stack. The house is 2 storeys, the school wings are tall but single storey. Tudor Gothic style. Nearly symmetrical 1:1:1:2:1:1:1 - window front, all limestone mullion-and-central- transom windows with hoodmoulds. The only window not 2 lights is the 3-light window on the ground floor of the house. All on the front have plain C20 glazing although the school room casements have glazing bars. However some windows on the rear and that at the left end still preserves the original patterned leaded glass. The front of the house has 1 ground floor window, 2 first floor windows and a ventilator slit in the gable. The gabled porch to right of the window has a stone Tudor arch containing a plank door with ornate strap hinges. The wings each have a central gabled bay projecting slightly forward with a stone panel in the gable containing a sunken quatrefoil panel and the gable is surmounted by a chimney shaft. Each bay is flanked by buttresses with weathered offsets and each wing is gable-ended with stone bellcotes over. The chimney shafts are tall and circular in 2 stages with broad projecting coping. At each gable end there are gable-ended porches with 2-light stone windows in the ends and stone 2-centred arches facing forward. Only the right one still contains the original plank door with ornate strap hinges. Either end, over the porch is a 2-light window flanked by single lights with central transoms set slightly lower at the top but dropping down a lot further at the bottom. Also slit ventilators in each gable. Rear of school wings similar to the front. Rear of house is the addition which includes horned 4-pane sashes. The other extension has large timber-mullion-and-transom windows with glazing bars and the stack has projecting brick pilasters. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SY0666184579