Four Winds,Village Hall And Outbuilding

SO 8000 NYMPSFIELD CHURCH STREET (east side)

17/324 Four Winds, village hall and outbuilding (previously listed as School and School House) 27.8.70

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Former school house, now detached house, linked by archway to former school hall. School house said to have been built 1846 but appears later, possibly by Benjamin Bucknall; 1865 school by S.S. Teulon. Coursed and dressed limestone; ashlar chimneys; concrete tile to school house, stone slate to school hall. Two- storey; school hall to south east linked by archway. Single- storey outbuilding to north. School house stands alongside road, full gable to left with chimney having chamfered shaft; 2-light flat mullioned upper floor casement below. Eaves-mounted chimney to right with similar shaft. Flat corner buttress to right with trefoil head. Rectangular single-storey bay window to south with hipped roof, mullioned and transomed casement to this and to upper floor with paired lancet vents in apex. Contemporary outbuilding to north with circular opening in gable end towards road. Parapet gabled ends to school hall south end with 4-light pointed geometrical traceried window. Two 2-light plate-traceried windows with small gables above on west side; buttress between. Flat roofed addition on east side is not of special interest. Interiors not inspected. (M. Saunders, 'Samuel Saunders Teulon' in Ed R. Brown, The Architectural Outsiders, 1985; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8006200338