Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. School.
Primary School
- WRENN ID
- sunken-paling-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1985
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Church of England primary school, constructed in 1850 and designed by Henry Woodyer. It is built of snecked squared rubble limestone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. The school is in a Gothic Revival style, arranged in an H-plan with a hall to the north, a two-storey classroom block to the south, linked by a single-storey range, and incorporating a latrine block to the east.
The east side features the gable end of the north wing, with a centrally placed pointed-arched doorway containing a plank door, a round-arched casement window to the right, and a three-light round-arched mullioned casement above with a relieving arch. Buttresses are present in the south-west corner. The latrine block is centrally positioned and linked to the projecting wings by screen walls with pointed arches. Tall, projecting chimney stacks face the courtyard; one is rectangular and the other circular, both with moulded caps. Two rows of weatherboarded dormers, each with lancets, are present on the hall roof. Large windows with reticulated tracery are in the gable ends of the hall.
The south side has a projecting, cross-gabled bell tower containing a staircase; it is punctuated by five stepped lancets with stone louvres across three gables. There are stair lancets below, and a central pointed-arched south-facing doorway. A four-light round-arched mullioned casement is to the right, with a two-light casement beyond. A 20th-century raking dormer is present, and a ridge-mounted chimney has a moulded cap. The north side displays a central gabled porch with a pointed arch and diagonal corner buttresses. A stone cross is situated in a trefoil niche at the apex of the porch gable. Two, two-light, trefoil-headed mullioned casements are to the left, and a single, four-light window is to the right.
The west side features projecting gables. The gable to the right has a four-light round-arched mullioned casement and a three-light window above with a relieving arch. The central range has a pointed-arched doorway, a three-light and a single-light trefoil-headed casement to the left, and two two-light casements to the right. Chimney stacks project as on the east side. All roofs are sprocketed at the eaves.
The interior of the hall features an open arched-braced collar truss rafter roof and pointed-arched internal doorways. A boundary wall, railings and a well pump are located in the west courtyard. The design is considered effective and original.
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