Description

SJ 64 NW SOUND C.P. WHITCHURCH ROAD

6/41 Sound County Primary
School.

II

Village school and schoolmaster's house, 1876 (school records) with
later alterations. Red and blue bricks with blue tile roof. 3-bay
single storey, 1-bay 2-storey, linked gabled schoolmaster's house.
Projecting plinth with blue-brick weathered top course. School
entrance has boarded door with strap hinges and shouldered lintel with
small rectangular light above, under a lean-to roof. The flanking
porch walls have blue brick offsets. Stepped, 3-light mullion and
transome windows, with metal lights and Gothic heads in gabled half
dormers with terra-cotta finials. Weathered sill band. Bell-turret,
astride ridge, has base clad in small slates, a steep pyramid roof of
cedar shingles and weather vane. Diagonally set square mid-slope
stack over front entrance. The Headmaster's House has ovolo moulded
terra-cotta mullion windows with metal casements, a blue-brick
weathered first floor band and a stepped gable feature below the
verge. Unperforated crested ridge tiles.
Interior: The school is mainly modernised but there are arch braced
roof trusses.

Listing NGR: SJ6287548249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429253

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