Old School School House

SU 71 SW ROWLANDS CASTLE IDSWORTH

9/16 Old School and School House

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Former Idsworth school and master's house, now two dwellings. 1851 (by William Burn), a building of Neo-Jacobean style in the manner of nearby Idsworth House, and apparently an estate building. Red brick walls of Flemish bond, with diaper patterns in blue headers, Bath stone dressings; plinth, chamfered quoins, gables with copings,finials,middle steps and kneelers. Steep slate roof, square flues to Tudor stacks. The north front has a central school hall, now with two gabled dormers, with three large mullion and transom windows and a gabled porch at the east side. This block terminates at the east end as a gabled cross wing of one storey and attic, with one above three windows, set in recessed panels. The west end is a taller crosswing (the house) of two storeys, with a west front having a gabled central porch with a gable above, and a large gable at the south side. Most of the cast-iron diaper casements survive. Boarded coupled doors. The rear has projections at each side, with a flat-roof C20 extension at the east side.

Listing NGR: SU7290612257