Village Hall And Attached House

SE 9784 HUTTON BUSCEL MAIN STREET (south side, off)

15/72 Village Hall and attached house

GV II

School and schoolhouse; now village hall and house. 1854. By William Butterfield, for the Downe family. Dressed sandstone with tooled dressings and quoins; slate roof. L-shaped on plan. Entrance front: single-storey house of 2 bays, to left of former school; cross wing gable end to right with single-storey projecting entrance bay in re-entrant angle; further lean-to outbuilding to right of cross wing. Plank door beneath gabled trellis porch to schoolhouse, to right of paired 12-pane sashes each in a pointed surround with unpierced tympanum. Pointed double doors to school, in quoined, chamfered surround. Massive quoined external stack with steep offsets to cross wing gable-end, in which a pointed recessed panel in quoined, chamfered surround contains the Downe arms. Outbuilding has paired slit lights. Left return of cross wing: tall gabled window of 3 shouldered lights. Central ridge stack with offsets. Steeply-pitched roofs, half hipped to left, and pent over entrance bay. Garden front: 1½-storey, 4-bay front, end left bay gabled and end right bay a lean-to outbuilding. To left, tall pointed mullion and transom window of 4 lights with geometric tracery to the head. To centre, two 2-light flat-arched 4-pane sashes with mullions. 2 similar half dormers under half-hipped gables to attic. Pent roof to outbuiding, pierced by chimney stack. Gable end to right: plank door to right in timber porch with bracketed flat hood. Dwarf angle buttress to right. To left, 12-pane sash in unpierced pointed surround. 2 similar windows above beneath half-hipped gable end. Quoined window surrounds and mullions are chamfered with run-out stops. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971: p401; fig 333.

Listing NGR: SE9723384049