The School Room

KINGS CLIFFE BRIDGE STREET TL0197 (North side) 13/95 No.27 (The School Room) 23/05/67 (Formerly listed as The School) GV II School, now disused. Datestone 1749 for Elizabeth Hutcheson. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade. Single-unit schoolroom. Single storey. 2-window range of leaded cross-windows, with some original glass, under gauged stone heads with keyblocks. Central 4-panel door has similar head. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers, to right, and ashlar stack to right end. 2 stone panels in fanlight space above door, one has inscription," Deo Adjuvante", the other has the date. Interior has dado with moulded rail and attached masters seat and 4 childrens seats. Sawn off stump of 4 more seats and inscription "WD 1779". The school was initially founded in 1745 by Elizabeth Hutcheson for 18 boys. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p98; Waller, A.K.; William Law, His Life and Thoughts (1973); Law, W.: Hutcheson E., A short account of the two Charitable Foundations at Kings Cliffe (1755))

Listing NGR: TL0100797076