School And School House

DAGLINGWORTH LOWER END SO 9904 18/185 School and School House

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Former school and school house, possibly by James Piers St Aubyn. Mid-late C19. Rock-faced limestone with rusticated quoins; red tile roof; thinly-bedded limestone stacks with dressed stone quoins and a single ashlar stack. 'L'-shaped plan to school with basically rectangular house at the south-east gable end with two projecting gables at right angles at the front. C20 flat-roofed extension to school not of special interest. School: single storey. House: 2 storeys. Side buttresses to school. Four tall 3-light stone-mullioned casements to the school. Four-light stone- mullioned canted bay to the ground floor of house; 3-light stone- mullioned casement with relieving arch; 2 and 3-light stone- mullioned casements otherwise (the latter with diamond-leaded panes). Plank door with strap hinges set back within an open-sided porch with hipped roof and two turned wooden balusters, set on an ashlar wall and a square ashlar column respectively. Similar plank door within a basket-headed surround and a relieving arch, to the left of the entrance gable. Scalloped terracotta ridge tiling, 'pepper'pot' ventilator with ogee-arched openings and finial to the school part. Some hipped gables to house part. Axial and lateral stacks. Single stack at rear of school with circular ashlar flue. Hanging for a single bell at the north-west gable end of the school room. Interior not inspected. St Aubyn designed Chantry House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO9970604933