School House Staunton Church Hall

STAUNTON LEDBURY ROAD SO 7829-7929 (north side)

13/195 School House and Staunton Church Hall (formerly listed as Former 6.12.76 Staunton Church of England Primary School and School House)

GV II

Former school and schoolmaster's house, now church hall and house. 1862 by G.R. Clarke. Squared, coursed, stone, ashlar dressings; tiled roof, 2 bands of fish-scale tiles to school room. Three- bay, single-storey schoolroom, rear wing; 2-bay, 2-storey cross wing. Cross-wing gable on right: plinth, 3-light mullioned window, stopped chamfers to vertical arrisses, stone lintel, relieving arch over. To left boarded door up one stone step, fanlight over, pointed head in stone lintel. First floor two 2- light windows as below: trefoil vent in gable, parapet gable with projecting kneelers and roll apex. Rendered chimney on right return, stone chimney on ridge at rear, and on left return, on ridge of schoolroom, last 2 with moulded stone caps. Schoolroom slightly set back to left. Three 2-light plate tracery windows, hoodmould, foliage stops, rising into dormers with parapet gables, roll on ridge. To left gable wall brought forwards as buttress: parapet gable with roll on apex. Open timber bellcote on ridge, curved braces to plate: steep, square slated spire with iron weathervane. Left return 3-light plate tracery window, hoodmould, head stops: trefoil vent over. Boarded door on left in leanto to rear, roof pitch flattened above. Forms group with Chartist cottages opposite (q.v.). (Drawings at C.R.O., D2186/146; Kelly's Worcestershire Directory, 1884.)

Listing NGR: SO7855529397