Description

YARCOMBE
ST 20 NE
8/176 Springfield Cottage
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- II
House, formerly a small school and master's house. Dated 1875 built at the expense
of Sir Francis Drake (sic.). Local stone and flint rubble laid to rough courses;
stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; slate roof.
Plan: 3-room plan house facing south-east. The centre and left end (south-west)
rooms are the former master's house. The left end room has a gable-end stack and
the centre room has an axial stack backing onto the entrance hall and main stair.
The right end room ws the former schoolroom. The house is 2 storeys and the former
schoolroom is open to the roof. There is now (1987) a fourth room under
construction at the left end.
Exterior: irregular 4-window front. The 3-window section of the former masters
house has original casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass (and one
on the ground floor has a pattern of C20 leaded glass). The schoolroom has a full
height timber 3-light mullion and transom window with a Gothic pattern of glazing
bars. The front doorway is right of centre and it contains the original 2-panel
doorway in which the panels are diagonal planks. The roof is gable-ended. In the
rignt gable end there is another tall timber mullion-and-transom window but this one
has only plain glazing bars. Above it is an inscribed Beerstone plaque recording
the building of the school in 1875 by Sir Francis Drake.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST2502309975

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462716

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey