Description

CORNHILL-ON-TWEED TILLMOUTH NT 84 SE 4/46 Tillmouth House II

Former school and schoolmaster's house, now private house. 1879. Snecked stone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. C13 style. H-plan with short additional wing and porch on left return. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Bays 2 and 5 are projecting and cross-gabled; bay 2 has canted bay window on ground floor with 4 arched lights, paired lancet window on 1st floor with trefoil above set in blank arch; bay 5 one tall storey with 3 stepped lancets and 3 trefoils above in blank arch. Gabled porch to school; and door, now a window, with shouldered lintel.

To left, set diagonally, the gabled porch to the schoolmaster's house, now the front door. Gabled roofs with flat coping, kneelers and 2 ridge stacks with tall octagonal chimney pots. On right return large window of 3 stepped lancets with trefoils over. On left return 2 bays with 2 tiers of paired lancets. Mid C20 canteen addition to rear is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NT8824242424

External Links

• Wikidata Q26294076

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)