Love'S Charity

FROXFIELD FROXFIELD GREEN SU 72 NW 9/33 Love's Charity 16.3.54 GV II The school opened 29.9.1734, founded from the will (1721) of Robert Love, of Basing Park, who left £1000 (later augmented by £300); now a house, following the absorp- tion of the charity by the Charity commissioners in 1875, and the construction of a new school, by Sir A Blomfield, at High cross in 1875. Red brick walls in Flemish bond, plinth. Tiled roof, hipped, with catslide at rear, and 2 hipped dormers. Symmetrical south front of 2 storeys and attic, 5 windows. Mullion and transom windows with leaded lights. The doorway has a plain frame, enclosing 2 fanlight leaded lights, and boarded door, beneath a moulded canopy, with panelled soffit, on carved brackets. Stone panel above the door inscribed 'THE GIFT OF ROBERT LOVE ESQ 1733'. Interior has old oak staircase. Minor C20 additions, including a garage forward of the west end.

Listing NGR: SU7041125580