Church House School

MANATON MANATON SX 77 NE 5/67 Church House School - GV II

Former national school converted into a house. Dated 1859. Granite rubble walls with larger granite quoins and dressed granite doorways and window surrounds. Dry Welsh slate roof with gabled ends and deep eaves and verges. Small brick ridge stacks with granite caps. Gothic style. School room with gabled wing at front flanked by lean-to entrance porches in the angles under swept down roof. Originally single storey with later floor inserted. West front has large pointed arched window without chamfer in centre of gable, window is 3-light timber mullion with cross transom. Tablet below the sill inscribed "Manaton National School erected A.D. 1859". In each flanking porch is pointed arched doorway chamfered with pyramid stops and dressed granite voussoirs. Gable ends of main range have large pointed arched windows with timber mullion/transom frames. Ventilation slit in gable above. Porches have small 2-light wood casements on inside walls. 2 C20 casements inserted in rear wall with a C20 gabled dormer windows above. Interior floored and converted into house, not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7506081227