Survey Data
Reg No
40401117
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
240052, 320731
Date Recorded
07/02/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey school with gabled projecting central porch, built c.1845, having single-bay two-storey master's house to end gable. Now in ruins. Roof no longer extant. Red brick chimneystacks. Dressed limestone walls with ashlar sandstone dressings to square-headed window, segmental-arched door, and lancet openings.
Appraisal
Built in the mid nineteenth century for Henry Cavendish Butler, Earl of Lanesborough, this school is an interesting reminder of the educational provisions which landlords made for tenants' and estate worker's children. Though now in ruins, it retains much of its historic character and form. It forms part of a significant group of related structures, that includes the gate lodge and church, as well as other more minor buildings, which were built to serve this estate in the past, and is a reminder of the scale and grandeur of the demesne.