Description

SYWELL MAIN STREET
SP8267 (South side)
15/301 The Old School House and
02/08/72 Village Hall
(Formerly listed as
The Village School, Masters
House)

GV II

School and masters house, now village hall and house. Dated 1860-64 for Lady
Overstone. Rusticated lias with ashlar dressings and plain-tile roof with
fishscale banding. T-shape plan. Masters house of 2 storeys, school is single
storey. Elevation to road: Masters house to right has projecting gable of
one-window range of wood-mullioned windows with ashlar surrounds. School to
left, 3-window range of single-light casements with cast-iron lozenge glazing
bars with ashlar surround all under open loggia with triple arcade of octagonal
wooden columns. 2 large ashlar gabled dormers above, with triple lancet windows.
Gabled porch to right of centre has C19 plank door with moulded stone surround
and 4-centred arch head and single-light window to left and slit window above,
both with ashlar surrounds. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Lateral stone
stacks and bellcote with spirelet at ridge. East gable of school has 4-light
window with intersecting tracery and slit window in apex. Masters house has
gabled porch to right. Tablet to right under loggia has inscription. "This
school house was erected under the care, and at the expense of the good Lady
Overstone by whom also the village of Sywell was rebuilt AD 1860-64". Similar
tablet to left under loggia has inscription to Thomas Arthur Dickson, former
school manager, and is dated 1927. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP8217067254

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26486494

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Sussex: West (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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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)