Description

CHURCH ROAD 1. 5390 Ashford TQ 07 SE 4/41 Welsh School II GV

2. 1857. Architect Henry Clutton. Gothic; partly Ruskin inspired. Main block two and a half storeys ragstone with Bath stone dressings and quoins. Plinth, first floor cill band, cornice over first floor, steep gabled coping to dormers. Slate roof. Two front chimneys with shaped stone stacks. Central cross gabled clock and belfry. Ten bays to centre with gabled 2-light dormers; triple cusped lancets below, 3 central bays with variant Gothic glazing and a parapetted square oriel bay on first floor. Flanking lower gabled breaks with stepped windows to gable ends and 4. dormers to returns; the west return has a pointed relieving arch on first floor to 3 windows with shaped upper corners. Main block has central moulded arch doorway with nook shafts and tympanum with Prince of Wales' Feathers. Doorway flanked by smaller windows with crocketted pinnacle shafts. Lower service ranges and 2 courtyards to rear. Later gym-block to west not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ0656672179

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