Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE MOUNT STREET 736-1/10/139 (North side) 16/12/74 Somerset County Library

II

School, now library office. Early C19. English-bond brick, shallow-pitched pantile roof with brick ridge stacks to left of centre and left gable end. Rectangular plan with late C19/early C20 wings to the right. Single storey to the main schoolroom, 2 storeys with attic to the master's accommodation to right end; 7-window range. The front entrance is in C19 schoolroom wing, the facade has 6 large semicircular gauged brick arches over tall windows with small panes. To left is a 2-storey canted bay passing through the eaves with a dentilled cornice, 6/6-pane sash windows and panelled between the floors. The left return, approx 15m wide, has a C20 bracketed gable over a wide semicircular 5-light fixed attic window: first floor has flat gauged brick arches to 3/3-pane sash windows flanking similar wide arch over narrower C20 casement window; ground floor has wide semi-elliptical arched recesses to each side, (possibly a stable entrance to left); a blocked door to far right, a flat arch to central C20 door, to right a low segmental brick arch to a blocked opening. The rear is similar to front except for C20 windows to the accommodation end, the first floor has an oriel window passing through the eaves. INTERIOR: the main block, once a large schoolroom, is now an office. The range to left has wide floorboards and planked door to attic; a dogleg staircase to rear right; the first floor has a square stone surround to a fireplace. (VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 238).

Listing NGR: ST2951437120

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