Village Hall And Old School House

SX 79 NW 5/162

HITTISLEIGH HITTISLEIGH CROSS Village Hall and Old School House

GV II

Hittisleigh village hall and adjoining house, formerly school and master's house. Late C19. Brick with some granite dressings; brick stacks; red tile hanging and red tile roof. School comprises large block facing south-east with forward projecting wing near left (south-west) end and master's house as crosswing projecting forward from right end. High single storey school buildings and 2 storey master's house with stack between the two. Arts and Crafts style. School hall has 2 tall square-headed windows with timber mullion and transoms. Half- hipped gable end of school wing includes arched window with brick pointed arch interrupted by blocks of granite. 3-light mullioned window with outer lights given pointed heads. Left gable end of school has C20 entrance lobby in front. Above 2 mullion-and-central-transom windows with heavy pointed glazing bars. Above a central ogival light and at apex the roof extended on brackets to shelter bell. School roof includes bands and lozenge shapes of fish-scale clay tiles and crested ridge tiles. Front gable end of master's house has ground floor 3-light mullion- and-transom window below slate-hung tympanum of arched head, 2 lancets to first floor and slate hung top part of gable. At right corner a buttress breaks forward. On right-hand return (north-east) house door is at left end. It has ornate strap hinges and segmental-headed arch. To right stair turret projects square at ground floor level, has granite broaches at first floor level to splayed corners of slate hung first floor with hipped roof. 3-light window at right end in segmental-headed arch. Disused stack serving first floor projects from wall on stone corbels to left of stair turret. Old school house has C20 replacement tile roof. In both buildings granite blocks are used in arched apertures and as springers for segmental arches, and all windows are timber. A chamfered plinth and low band of diagonally-set bricks run round the entire buildings.

Listing NGR: SX7320695020