Description

TF 23 NE ALGARKIRK CHURCH ROAD
(west side)

8/2 South Cottage,
Village Hall and
Church View Cottage
and garden wall
(Formerly listed as
School)
26.1.67
II

Formerly schoolmasters' houses and school, now 2 cottages and
Village Hall, and garden walls. By Sir G. G. Scott, patron Rev.
B. Beridge, 1856. Squared, coursed limestone rubble with ashlar
quoins and dressings, Westmoreland slate roof with stone coped
gables, moulded kneelers. 2 shaped ridge stacks. E-plan, school
in centre flanked by cottages. Single storey, 9 bay front, with
chamfered plinth, centre bay is an advanced and gabled porch with
spired bellcote. The end 2 bays have one bay advanced and gabled
with upper floors, the others set back with partly external gable
stack. A pair of lancets in porch, which contains single
doorways to each side with Caernarvon arched heads and trefoils
with moulded hoods. Shields over door, one dated 1856. Flanked
by 2 pairs of stepped trefoiled lancets, moulded octagonal shafts
and chamfered over arches. Beyond are 2 light windows with
Caernarvon arched heads, moulded octagonal centre shafts and
chamfered rectangular surrounds. To the upper floors in the end
gables are pairs of similar windows with trilobe heads, pointed
over arches with rosettes in tympana. The recessed end bays have
pent lead roofed porches, with timber bases, arches and lattice
work. To first floor a 2 light window with moulded mullion and
flat head. In front attached to the cottages are low rubble
garden walls with moulded ashlar copings, terminating at each end
in low coped piers.

Listing NGR: TF2911235167

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26315342

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)