School House And The Village House (Shown As The Old Cottage On O.S. Map)

SE 7287-7387 APPLETON-LE-MOORS VILLAGE STREET (west side)

8/4 School House and the jjousc and tile Village House (shown as The Old Cottage on O.S. map)

GV II

Schoolmaster's By house and Village School; now Village Hall and attached house. 1865. J L Pearson. Coursed, squared limestone; part timber-framed; ashlar dressings; slate roof. High Victorian Gothic. House of 2 storeys with crosswing, with full-height school hall open to roof to right, gable end to street and projecting at rear into former play-ground. Irregular fenestration. Hall gable end: tall 3-light window with Geometrical tracey on sill band between buttresses. Diagonally-set bellcote above, with 4 openings and octagonal spire. Entrance in pent porch to right has pointed boarded door with iron hinges, under hood-mould. Schoolmaster's house has similar door. Above is a half-dormer with pointed gable and 2-light windows with plate tracery. Crosswing to left: 3-light mullion and transom ground floor window. Ashlar lintel band runs across facade of the whole building. Sill. band to same window terminated in the angle of crosswing. The upper storey is jettied and timber-framed with a half-hipped gable, and contains a 4-light mullion and transom. window. Irregular stacks. Interior contains original features. A Quiney, John Loughborough Pearson, p 139.

Listing NGR: SE7355587715