School And Schoolhouse

SU 73 SW 5/5

EAST TISTED GOSPORT ROAD School and Schoolhouse

GV II

Dwelling attached to a school (now replaced by an adjoining C20 building). 1837. Walls of ashlar malmstone, with flat arches, plinth: the recessed south side is roughcast, and the south end gable is completely tile-hung, with scalloped bands. The roof is ornamented with scalloped bands, and there are 2 dormers with cusped bargeboards: the large gables at the front also have a cusped pattern to the bargeboards and the eaves are similarly treated, with wider curves. A long narrow block with 2 projecting gabled wings, being 2 L-shaped units joined together, with entrances in the angles; 1 storey and attic. The feature of the building is the series of cast-iron casement windows, the design being made up of very small octagonal panes. Each of the coupled attic windows has 3 (horizontal) by 8 (vertical) octagons: 2 recessed windows to house and school have 3 units, each of 3 x 8 octagons: in the 2 front gables are large splayed bays with 2 tiers of 5 units, each of 3 x 8 octagons (the northern with additional narrow end windows of 2 x 8 octagons). The house porch (of Bath stone) has a gable above a Tudor arch: the roof is brought to a lower eaves on posts to form the open porch of the school entrance and nearby a stone is inscribed 1837. The south gable has a 4-cusped ogee small window above a splayed bay with 5 casements, both with diagonal patterns to the cast-iron frames.

Listing NGR: SU7013232088