Survey Data
Reg No
11201084
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
School
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1825 - 1830
Coordinates
303348, 235386
Date Recorded
18/04/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-bay two-storey over basement former school, built 1827, on a T-shaped plan formed by single-storey entrance bays flanking. Converted, c.1991, and now in use as private dwellings and an office. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base. uPVC casement windows. Four-light timber window to gabled projection to front. Timber panelled doors with plain semi-circular overlights. Pitched slate roof behind parapet having stone coping, pyramidal finials, and decorative render arcaded motif. Central tablet with carved roundel name and date plaque. Two rendered chimney stacks. Similar parapets to entrance bays. Coursed limestone rubble walls to street.
Appraisal
An unusual attractive former school, with Gothic decorative elements echoing the church opposite, which adds variety and character to this stretch of the Main Street.