Description

TQ 08 SW WEXHAM GEORGE GREEN ROAD

9/728 The Old School House and The Old School Cottage 20.8.79 - II

Dated 1859. Originally a school and school master's house now 2 houses. Irregular composition approximately T-shaped with the long arm on the left the former school and the top bar on the right the former master's house. Stock brick; fishscale modern tile roof. Left hand part with low gabled projection on the left, then a gabled window rising into the roof and then a dormer window in the roof. Between this and the gabled end of the former master's house, a big open timber-framed porch with board entrance door with wrought iron hinges and furnishings. Ground floor of house with canted bay window with fishscale tiled roof. First floor with a four-centred arched casement window and, above that, a plaque with crest, lion passant and shield, and the date 1859. All win- dows with glazing bars; all gables bargeboarded.

Listing NGR: TQ0024381113

External Links

• Wikidata Q26418067

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version