Description

1. 5344 CHURCH ROAD Willesborough St. Mary's Hall and No. 48 (Old National School) TR 04 SW (029 417) 3/534 II

2. Former National School and School House. 1848; main school room extended in same style in 1897, in memory of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Ragstone with brick quoins; clay plain tile roof. Single storey two room school with S.W. porch; no.48, of one storey and attic, attached to N.E. end of school. School: front room with S.E. gable with stone bellcote (bell removed) on corbels; roof descends low in front elevation over four-light window to right hand and porch to left hand. Porch with moulded brick arch, and tablet over inscribed "National School AD MDCCCXLVIII. Site given by W. Cook Esq. Wm Gould Vicar"; brick floor; boarded roof. S.E. side elevation: further porch with moulded brick arch; one three-light and two four-light partly leaded , windows. N.W. brick gable with partly leaded three-light window, and single light window above. Ragstone of N.E. elevation concealed by later lean-to and flat-roofed additions. Interior: three bay front school room with probably original brick canopied fireplace with segmental head and chamfered joists; contemporary cupboard on moulded corbels to right hand. Stopped and chamfered arch braced trusses. Similar trusses to rear 7 bay school room with wainscot boarding to walls, boarded doors partly with pointed heads and diagonally placed brick fireplace with segmental head and chamfered jambs. Wooden board recording 1897 extension. No. 48: front and rear gables with segmental brick heads to windows, one above and below in front and one above at rear; pointed brick arch on left hand in rear elevation; N.E. side elevation with two two-light windows in brick segmental heads both above and below, the upper windows set in attic gables. Interior retains C19 doors, cupboard doors, pilastered fireplace surround to first floor; chamfered newels to stair, set within C19 plan.

Listing NGR: TR0296941714

External Links

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