School And School House

In the entry for TOTTON AND ELING POUND LANE SU 31 SE (HOUNSDOVN) 5/25 School and School House II the parish shall be amended to read

ASHURST AND COLBURY

------------------------------------ TOTTON AND ELING POUND LANE (HOUNDSDOWN) SU 31 SE 5/25 School and School House II

Former Church of England school and school house, now a primary school. c1870, probably by B Ferrey (see Deerleap Lane, Christchurch), with early C20 extensions. Walls of flint with stone dressings; bands, chamfered openings, stepped buttresses (to the south hall): the upper part of the house has exposed framing (plaster infilled) jettied on decorative brackets; later walls of red brickwork in English bond. Steep tile roof, with half-hip to the school. Hall school with house attached as a crosswing, with porch entrance at the junction between the two parts; the north-east elevation has two wide and one narrow window, separated by buttresses, with (at the north side) the gable ends of the house, of 2 storeys, 1 window. Casements; stone-framed bay (to the house) below the jetty. Open timbers framed porch on a stone base with a gable, having details (similar to the porch of Christchurch.) The north west elevation (of the house front) is near-symmetrical with a gabled central window above a doorway with a pointed arch, flanked by a window (the east side narrows) on each side.

Listing NGR: SU3505611453