Description

TL 5973 SOHAM CLAY STREET
(South Side)

13/45 Church of England
Primary School and
School House

II

School and school house built on asymmetrical plan in 1863.
School of brick with flint casing and yellow gault brick
quoins. Clunch dressings to doors and windows. Steeply pitched
slate roof with shaped and pierced bargeboarding to gable ends
and originally with crested ridge tiles, now removed. Plan of
single storey hall with offices to right hand forming a cross-
wing. Hall has paired gables with similar bargeboarding to two
Gothic windows with transome and mullion and three other
windows, with pointed arches to each of three lights. The
crosswing has two gables with similar bargeboarding and two
Gothic windows, also with tracery. The school house is linked
to the school by a wall with an opening in a pointed arch. The
house is also of brick with flint exterior, yellow gault brick
quoins and clunch dressings to windows and doors. Steeply
pitched slate roof retaining the original crested ridge tiles
and similar bargeboarding. Two storeys. A bargeboarded gable
to a two-light window with Y-tracery in a two-centred head. At
ground floor, one canted bay with hipped roof and traceried
lights, one retaining the original diamond leaded lights. The
gable end has a canted oriel window with three leaded lights,
each with tracery. The school retains the original register.

Listing NGR: TL5916273030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419406

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)