Description

SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY CHURCH STREET (north side)

19/80 The Old School

GV II

Former school. Tablet to rear inscribed 'Rebuilt'; for Sir John Nelthorpe. AD 1854 by JN " Extended to left in 1876, rear addition dated 1890 on tablet. Red brick with yellow brick and sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Plan: original single-classroom block to right, with 1876 single-classroom addition to left and 1890 service extensions to rear. Single-storey twin- gabled 2-window front, symmetrical, with pairs of entrances flanking windows. Plinth, quoins. Projecting 4-centred arch entrances have 3 stone steps to board doors with ornate iron escutcheons in chamfered wooden frames, chamfered red brick reveals and yellow brick surrounds with corbelled kneelers and ashlar-coped gables. Tall 4-centred arch 3-light windows with moulded wooden mullions and glazing bars in chamfered yellow brick surrounds with chamfered red brick sills. Tumbled-in brick to raised gables with shaped kneelers. Rectangular ashlar tablets to gables beneath hood-moulds, each with Nelthorpe arms, crest and motto in relief. Central axial stack; small single ventilators to classroom gables. Fish-scale slates to right and centre, plain slates to left. Right return has three 3- light mullioned windows with glazing bars in chamfered segmental-arched yellow brick reveals with brick sills, plain 4-course yellow brick frieze and beaded wooden eaves board. Left return has 2 similar windows in plain surrounds. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE9687205575

External Links

• Wikidata Q26456032

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)