The Schoolroom With Piers And Boundary Wall

PAINSWICK GLOUCESTER STREET SO 8609/8709 (east side) 7/93 and 8/93 The Schoolroom with piers and boundary wall GV II Schoolroom, wall and gate piers. Dated 'SCHOOLROOM 1844' in fine incised lettering. Limestone ashlar, hipped Welsh slate roof. A simple room attached The Manse (q.v.). Single storey, 2 round-headed sashes with radial bars in plain raised architraves with keystone flanking a similar blind opening. On left hand return, in courtyard, a pair of fielded-panel doors in reveals with plat band surround to round arched opening and one window as to street. Plinth dries to pavement at higher end; moulded cornice with blocking course. To left a length of limestone ashlar wall with plain coping containing pair of 450 mm square piers 2 m high with pyramidal cappings to square cornice; far left a lofty pier of same kind, adjoining the Baptist Chapel (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO8673509899