Hartpury Church Of England Primary School And Attached House

The building comprises a school and attached house, dating from 1869, with a later 19th-century extension. It was designed by Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester and built by J. Clutterbuck for Rev. W. G. S. Addison. Constructed of squared, coursed blue lias stone with ashlar around the openings, it has a tiled roof. The building’s footprint resembles an ‘L’. The school wing, with its gable facing the road, features a single-storey hall. The two-storey house wing is located to the left, spanning two rooms in depth.

The schoolroom gable has a plain plinth and a three-light stepped lancet window with a transom, plate tracery, a hood mould with stone voussoirs forming a relieving arch, and the date “1869” carved into the windowhead. A half-hip roof sits above. Chimneys are set back on the left return. A lower gable porch provides access; it has a boarded door leading up three stone steps, a trefoil head with a quatrefoil above, all within a chamfered two-centred arch. Carved text is present above. The porch has a parapet gable with a cross gablet and an iron finial at the apex. Trefoil heads adorn the rain-water outlets, along with decorative cast-iron rain-water heads and square pipes.

The house entrance features a boarded door with a low pointed arch. Above is a trefoil-headed lancet. It has a steep pyramid roof with a bellcast and lead top, and small gablets on each face. A wall projects to the left, displaying a three-light flat-headed mullioned window with a relieving arch. Above this window is a two-light mullioned window with a half-hip roof. The left return to the school shows four windows altered in the 1960s, retaining original sills and jambs. Four small gablets are incorporated into the roof. Beyond are two half-hipped gables, each with a two-light mullion and transom window, featuring trefoil heads to the lights and a relieving arch above.

Inside, the entrance provides access to the porch, with the school hall to the right. The hall was subdivided in the late 20th century and a ceiling inserted. The feet of arch-braced collar trusses are visible, rising from stone corbels. The hall retains two fireplaces with stone surrounds, two-centred arches, and stone mantelshelves. The angle of the ‘L’ was largely infilled in the 20th century.

The school was extended in 1875 and 1893; one extension is a second gable on the right return. Contract drawings (D2186/72) are held at the Gloucester County Records Office, and notes from the school log book are with the school.