Survey Data
Reg No
16315010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1885 - 1890
Coordinates
329033, 195388
Date Recorded
03/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey school house of 1888, presently unused. The façade is in uncoursed rubble stone rough granite quoins and brick dressings to the windows, whilst the gable-ended pitched roof is covered in artificial slate with small replacement brick chimneystacks. To the south-facing front there is a gabled porch with plain sheeted timber entrance door. Above the doorway is a cut-granite date stone inscribed: "RATHNEW/NATIONAL SCHOOL/1888". The flat-headed windows have replacement timber frames with hopper openers. A tall rubble wall extends from the front porch enclosing the grounds of the building.
Appraisal
A good example of a small late 19th-century National school whose value lies in its simple unadorned form. An asset to the streetscape, though presently in poor condition.