North Molton County Primary School

NORTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (north side), SS 7229-7329 18/191 North Molton County Primary School 20.2.67 (formerly listed as Primary School) GV II School. Circa 1850. Snecked dressed sandstone with painted ashlar dressings. Rendered to rear. Hipped scantle-slate roof. Plan: Asymmetrical T-plan. Main range aligned approximately north-south, facing west, and wing to rear with opposed entrances. Tudor-Gothic style. Two storeys. Exterior: Symmetrical 4-window front to west; mullioned stone windows of 3 trefoil- headed lights under square head with returned hoodmoulds and flat stone-arched heads. Left-hand ground-floor window with C20 concrete lintel. Chamfered segmental-pointed arched doorway to right with trefoil-panelled spandrels, returned hoodmould and flat stone-arched head. Boarded door with wooden tympanum above, approached by 5 steps with low flanking dressed-stone walls. Blocked doorways between second and third and third and fourth windows from left (see later masonry and former flat stone-arched heads). Left and right-hand ends to main range have mullioned stone windows to each floor, each of 3 trefoil-headed lights with returned hoodmoulds and flat stone-arched heads. Opposed boarded doors to rear wing, that to south with 4-part rectangular overlight. Interior not inspected. Old postcards show the school with diamond-leaded lights, now replaced by C20 metal centre-hung casements.

Listing NGR: SS7369129896