Description

SK 14 SE PARISH OF OSMASTON MOOR LANE
4/78 (West Side)
Osmaston Primary School
and attached house
GV II

School and house. c1840s by Stevens of Derby. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone
with sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roofs with stone coped gables, with moulded
kneelers and finials. Stone gable end and lateral stacks. One and two storeys.
Irregular plan. East elevation with school house on right and school to left. House
is of two storeys with a gabled bay on the right with canted bay window to ground floor,
and 2-light chamfered mullion window above.C20 doorway to left with gabled dormer above,
with 2-light chamfered mullion window. School to left has unequal 5-light mullion
windows flanking a projecting gabled bay with a pair of single light chamfered mullion
windows, with single dripmould above. Stone in the gable inscribed This stone was
placed here by the tenants of the Osmaston estate in grateful recognition of the
munificence of the builder of these Schools Reading Room and Parish Church 1873.
Staggered twin gabled south elevation, the left gable with a 4-light chamfered mullion
window and a similar 2-light window above. Right gable has a similar 4-light mullioned
and transom window.

Listing NGR: SK1989143955

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