Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. School, house.

Old School House

WRENN ID: second-vault-fog
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Westmorland and Furness
Country: England
Type: School, house
Source: Historic England listing

Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD16NE PROMENADE, Walney Island 708-1/5/277 (West side) 06/09/73 Old Schoolhouse

GV II

School now house. Dated 1856. Limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings. slate roof. T-shaped plan with lean-tos in the angles; Gothic Revival style. Single storey. Front gable has large quoins and triple lancets in bonded ashlar surrounds, each light with latticed iron casement and shouldered head. Above the windows a ribbon reads 'FEAR GOD AND HEED HIS COMMANDMENTS' and above that a quatrefoil plaque under hoodmould states '1856/ IN MEMORY OF/ - - - MICHAELSON ESQ/ OF THE ISLE OF BARROW'. Shaped kneelers, ashlar gable copings and apex finial. Lean tos set back on each side have single-light windows and ashlar copings. Quoined square-headed doorway into left return of left lean-to. Both returns of main building have gabled elevations as front except for slits in place of the front gable ornament.

Listing NGR: SD1859268510

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