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Latitude: 52.2973 / 52°17'50"N
Longitude: -0.7965 / 0°47'47"W
OS Eastings: 482169
OS Northings: 267256
OS Grid: SP821672
Mapcode National: GBR CWY.X0Z
Mapcode Global: VHDRV.4JS7
Plus Code: 9C4X76W3+W9
Entry Name: The Old School House Village Hall
Listing Date: 2 August 1972
Last Amended: 13 May 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1191789
English Heritage Legacy ID: 233586
ID on this website: 101191789
Location: Sywell, North Northamptonshire, NN6
County: North Northamptonshire
Civil Parish: Sywell
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Sywell with Overstone
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: School building
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
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