School And Assembly Rooms

SP 02 28 WINCHCOMBE ABBEY TERRACE (south side) 4/9 School and Assembly Rooms -

GV II

School, later Working Men's Club, now Assembly Rooms and commercial premises. Dated 1857. Limestone ashlar, stone slate roof, coped gables. Modest Victorian Gothic, L-plan with cross wing containing assembly hall, gable to street, left, then cross passage, with main wing parallel to street hav- ing secondary gable near right-hand end; return set to steep slope of ine- yard Street. Gable is one storey with 5-light stepped lancets with cusping under continuous stepped string under oculus with mouchettes ; a plate glass shop front has been cut across the bottom of the main window. Then 1½ storey section with 3 face gables containing 2-light ogee-cusped windows under small oculus, and 3-light cusped below, between two arched entrances; right is gable with 3-light window with stepped drip over wider section weather-stepped outwards containing small 3-light window at pavement level. On return gable 1:3:1 lancets with some cusping under oculus as main gable, all over string stepped before quoins, and 3-light small window and door. Although modified for commercial use, many original interior fittings remain. In addition to its key role visually in Abbey Terrace, this is a building of social significance to Winchcombe. A small faience tablet, left hand end, records that the building treated 809 cases as a hospital between 16 May 1915 and 30 November 1918.

Listing NGR: SP0240428218