Description

SK 43 SW PARISH OF ELVASTON (off) MAIN STREET
2/39 (West Side)
Village Hall And
Attached House (No 21)
II
School and school master's house, now village hall and house.
1852, built for the Earl of Harrington, with later rear
additions. Red brick plus yellow brick headers in Flemish bond,
with stone dressings and stone copings to brick plinth. Steeply
pitched banded fishscale and plain tile roof with pierced
bargeboards and an external gable stack to west with twin pots
plus a side wall external brick stack to east. Single storey,
three bay school to west with single bay tower to east end at
junction with the house which is attached at right angles. The
school has an advanced gabled centre bay with a large 3-light
recessed and chamfered cross window plus dripmould and a moulded
plaque with Harrington crest and dripmould above. To either
side there are smaller 2-light recessed and chamfered 2-light
mullion windows. To east the advanced three storey tower has a
chamfered four-centred arched doorcase with incised spandrels,
hoodmould and plank door to south, and a stepped buttress to
west. Above it has a recessed and chamfered single light window
with returned hoodmould and above again there is a moulded stone
quatrefoil inscribed '1852'. West side of tower has a recessed
and chamfered single light window to ground floor with similar
window to the third stage and a small blocked window between in
the second stage. To top the tower has a coved eaves
stringcourse and embattled parapet. House to east has gable
wall to main front with a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion
window with dripmould to ground floor and similar 2-light window
above plus similar crested plaque over. Similar arrangement of
windows to east elevation. All fenestration is lozenge pattern
iron casements. Rear additions of no interest.

Listing NGR: SK4093832597

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26388687

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