School, Spott

John Mason Junior, 1832 school, altered to schoolhouse circa

1872, when new school was adjoined to E, currently serving as

community centre. Squared and snecked, red rubble sandstone

with stugged ashlar dressings and base course.

SCHOOL HOUSE: single storey with attic and basement;

S ELEVATION: 3-bay symmetrical. Corbelled, open pediment to

door in centre gabled bay, with small pane fanlight; stone

mullioned bipartite in gable head with school bell above;

large windows flanking at ground.

Modern lean-to extension at rear. Plate glass glazing pattern to

sash and case windows; green slates to timber bracketted,

overhanging eaves; gable end stacks.

COMMUNITY CENTRE: rear block adjoined to E gable of school

house, with 2 windows to N and stone mullioned bipartite in

E gable; to S larger gabled, school room block. Projecting porch set

in re-entrant angle formed between house and school room with

shouldered lintel to door and moulded blocking course above;

boarded door with decorative hinges. Further porch, gabled,

adjoined to E end of school room block. 2 windows to S. Tall

bipartites on gable ends to E and W with small windows in gable

heads.

Multi-pane glazing pattern to S windows, with small pane to

remaining, in sash and case windows. Green slates to

overhanging timber bracketted eaves: stack set in

valley. Decorative timber bellcote with spirelet and weathervane.

Finial retained in E gable.