Old School House

SE 45 SE BILTON IN AINSTY TOCKWITH LANE (east side)

4/8 Old School House

• II

School, now private house. Early C19. For Hall Plumer. Red-brown brick, Flemish bond, graduated grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays, the pedimented central 2 bays project. Central 6-panel door with overlight. Blocked doorway now a window far right. 12-pane sashes flank the door, the remainder are smaller and of 16 panes and all have segmental stretcher arches and stone sills. Modillioned eaves cornice and pediment. A stone plaque between the central first-floor windows has no inscription; a blind oculus in the pediment has an inscription (restored): "Ex dono / H. PLUMER Armi(ger) / Anno Domini / 1801". End brick stacks. A late C19 single- storey schoolroom with stone-mullioned windows projects to right. Left return (to road): a round-arched recess with keystone, right, has a blocked doorway; 2 round-arched windows with stone sills and C20 small-paned sashes to first floor; blocked oculus to gable. Rear range not of special interest. The school was endowed by Hall Plumer of Bilton Hall (qv) and served Bilton, Bickerton and Tockwith. It was closed in 1928 and was used as a village hall until 1973 when the chuch sold it and it was converted into a private house. W V Crapp, Some historical notes on the Parish and Parish Church of St Helen's, Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton, 1973, p6.

Listing NGR: SE4712550730