Description

BRAMPFORD SPEKE
SX 99 NW
3/3 Brampford Speke Church of England
- Primary School
GV II
School and attached shoolmaster's house. 1867, by John Hayward, Exeter diocesan
architect. Red brick, with black brick dressing, gabled-end slate roof. A good
front with the house to the left, of 2 storeys, and the school to the right, of
one. House, front of 2 bays, the right-hand bay under a separate gable, with a
canted bay window at ground floor level, 6-pane casement window above. Left-hand
bay with simple window to each floor. Black and red brick window arches. School,
with 4 large windows and central buttress. Angled-brick eaves cornice throughout.
An undemonstrative but effective composition by an important local architect, this
building, although temporarily partly concealed, faces Taylor's Farmhouse and
Homeliving on a central village site. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9262698495

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389865

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)