Former School Building Immediately North East Of The Old Vicarage

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 SILVER STREET 1011-1/6/123 (North East side) 06/01/83 Former school building immediately north-east of The Old Vicarage (Formerly Listed as: SILVER STREET Former school building immediately to N of vicarage)

GV II

Schoolroom, partly used as garage, partly disused. Probably c1820s with later alterations. Rendered slatestone rubble; secondary concrete tile roof, gabled at ends; stack with dismantled shaft. Plan: sited immediately NE of The Old Vicarage (qv). Rectangular 2-storey block, roofed on a NW/SE axis. Ground-floor room heated by lateral stack on the NW side towards the N end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The SW side, facing the vicarage, has altered openings: garage doors to the left, doorway alongside to the right, blocked window to the right hand, with brick arch. 2 blocked first-floor windows with brick arches. The NW end has a platband below the gable and tall round-headed recess with a C20 ground floor window. Tall round-headed first-floor 16-pane sash with cast-iron glazing bars and spider's web glazing in the head. Blind rectangular recess in gable. SE end not seen externally but retains the spider's web glazing of a window that may have matched that on the NE end. INTERIOR: fireplace with semi-circular stone arch to the left on the NE wall. Later fireplace, perhaps for copper in the centre, tall round-headed recess to the right. Cross beams with sunk ovolo mouldings. First floor also has round-headed recesses to the walls.

Listing NGR: SX7356966365