Churcham County Primary School And Attached House

SO 71 NE CHURCHAM A 40 (north side)

11/2 Churcham County Primary School and attached house

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School and house: about 1856. Flemish bond red brick, with yellow dressings and some blue bricks, stone windows to school, and stone to offsets; tiled roof, in coloured bands. 'L' plan house, 2- storey, upper half in roof, 3 windows wide, built against and with 'T' plan single-storey school, porches as serifs to cross piece. Elevation to road, house on left; brick plinth, central door with weather-boarded, gabled porch, Each side 3-light timber mullioned windows, cast-iron decorative casements, under low-pointed arch with stone keystone: splayed reveals. Above similar 2-light windows at ends, partly in low gables, with projecting stepped yellow bricks to verge. In centre 3 conjoined diamonds in projecting blue brick, enclosing yellow and red bricks; slight projection of yellow brick eaves course. Gable chimney on left with stone offsets. School to right, slightly lower: main gable projects; brick plinth, buttress on left towards house, on right towards road. 3-light, geometric-tracery window, hoodmould with large, uncarved stone stops. Above arch of alternating 3 blue, 3 yellow bricks; blue brick St Andrew's cross in gable; yellow brick verge as house, On right side low, gabled porch, with 3-light flat-headed stone window. Doorway on right return chamfered stone surround, pointed arch: original boarded door at back of porch. Above, blue brick cross in gable. In centre of right return projecting wing with gable as that facing road; near top 2 stone corbels, with plain wall above, probably carried bellcote. Base of chimney on ridge. On either side a low wing, gabled left, with behind, on main cross piece a triangular dormer with plain, stone window. Porches beyond, projecting from ends of main cross piece. Interior, roof hidden by late C20 ceiling, but feet of trusses visible, rising from stone corbels. (Kelly's Gloucestershire Directory, 1870).

Listing NGR: SO7603618665