Winsham County Primary School

WINCHAM CP CHURCH STREET (West side) ST30NE

4/97 Winsham County Primary School

GV II

Village school with schoolhouse. Dated 1850, with some modifications. Local stone roughly squared with Ham stone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks. 'H'-plan; single-storey school and 2-storey house. South elevation to Pooles Lane has 4 bays, with wide lancet windows under labels, having inserted small-pane casements: between bays 2/3 a projecting gabled porch with cross finial and pointed-arched doorway with label, and set into gable an incised stone inscribed 'AD 1850", above which is a small stone tabernacle with boarded sites containing the school bell. Pairs of later windows in the west and east end gables; the east elevation to Church Street then extends northwards with a 3-unit plain window, a segmental pointed-arched doorway and another lancet window: then the 3-bay school house, of which bay 3 is a north crosswing: trefoil-arched 3-light mullioned and transomed windows under segmental-pointed relieving arches to lower bays 1 and 3, with 2-light mullioned and transomed windows above, that to bay 1 set in a gabled dormer; a simpler window under the eaves to upper bay, 2, below which is a segmental pointed-arched doorway. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST3746706322