Description

BROOMLEY AND STOCKSFIELD BYWELL SCHOOL NZ 06 SE 5/87 Stocksfield House

GV II

Former headmaster's house to Bywell School, dated 1832. Squared stone with tooled ashlar porch and dressings; Welsh slate roof. Tudor Gothic style. South elevation 2 storeys, 2 bays. Chamfered plinth. Projecting porch at left has vertical-panelled door in chamfered pointed arch with hollow-chamfered hoodmould; moulded string below moulded parapet stepped up over central plain recessed panel. Single-light windows in porch returns and to right of porch; 2-light window above. At right 2-light windows, the upper in corbelled-out gabled half dormer with serpentine traceried bargeboard; date panel with Allendale arms over upper window. All openings in chamfered surrounds. Overhanging eaves; central stack with 4 short diagonally-set shafts.

Right return 2 gabled bays; 3-light (lower) and 2-light windows, similar ornamental bargeboards. Rear elevation shows porch projection with renewed doors in 4-centred chamfered arch. Corbelled-out 1st floor with 2-light windows and Allendale arms in gable; ornamental bargeboards.

Listing NGR: NZ0533361568

External Links

• Wikidata Q26447912

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)