School And Attached School House

SE 9683 WYKEHAM A 170 (south side)

14/120 School and attached Schoolhouse

GV II

School; schoolhouse now incorporated into school. 1853-54. By William Butterfield. Dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings; slate roof. L-shaped on plan, with former schoolhouse forming a wing to the rear of the school. School: single-storey, 2-window front, with lower outbuilding to right. Pointed and quoined entrance in outbuilding contains double board doors. Windows to left are each of 3 stepped lights. Steeply- pitched main roof with half-hipped pent roof to outbuilding. Right gable wall: wall above lean-to contains a cinquefoil light recessed in chamfered pointed surround. Dawnay arms in the gable end above. Left gable wall: tall 2-light window beneath pointed hood-mould. Rear: 2 cross gables each containing 2-light windows. Ridge stack with steep offsets to right cross gable. All windows have Geometric tracery, chamfered sills and quoined surrounds. Former schoolhouse: single-storey, 3-bay range. Board door to left in quoined surround with pointed chamfered head. 3-light window to right with tall large-pane sashes, beneath segmental arch. Single sash to end right. Roof steeply-pitched and half-hipped to right. 2 ridge stacks with steep offsets. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971.

Listing NGR: SE9650283344