The Old Schoolhouse

SO 8201-8301 WOODCHESTER ATCOMBE ROAD (east side), South Woodchester

18/198 The Old Schoolhouse

28.6.60 II

Former school building and attached house. Late C17; c1840 school building. Random rubble limestone, partially roughcast rendered; ashlar limestone to school; ashlar and brick rebuilt chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey house; 2-storey school on east side forming L-plan. South front: gable end of house to left with doorway behind C20 glazed conservatory porch; timber casement to left; 3-light chamfered mullioned upper floor casement with hoodmould. Two-window 3-light mullioned fenestration to school to right all with Tudor headed lights and hoodmoulds. Hipped roof to school with eaves-mounted chimney on east side having plain cap. North: gable end of house to right with large bow window to ground floor, cross window to upper floor with timber lintel and small fixed light above. Small casement and doorway with glazed door under combined hoodmould on east side of house. C20 addition to rear of school is not of special interest. West side of house is built against road embankment with blocked upper floor chamfered doorway having small gable over. Interior not inspected. School built as one of several dame schools in Woodchester. (F.A. Little, Woodchester Village History, 1926; and W.J. Sheils, 'Woodchester' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 294-304.)

Listing NGR: SO8394101927