Description

SU 67 NW BASILDON READING ROAD (south-west side)

2/9
The Old Schoolhouse And
Old School Adjoining To
North-west

G.V. II

School and Schoolhouse in a neo-Gothic style, now house and store. Dated
1858 in gable end to north-west. Schoolhouse to left: flint with stone
dressings, plinth and lacing courses. Half hipped patterned tile roof with
ridge cresting, 2 stacks to left and right at rear, and 2 gabled dormers
with 2-light diamond leaded casements. Half hipped cross wing projecting
to right with lower eaves, ridge stack and gabled dormer in left-hand
return front with 2-light diamond leaded casement. 1½ storeys. 2-arched
light diamond leaded casement to left and arched diamond leaded casement
to right flanking arched boarded door off-centre to right with hoodmould
and carved stops. Canted bay with mullioned and transomed windows and
tile roof in cross wing to right; 2-arched light diamond leaded casements
in gable end above. School to right: flint with stone dressings, plinth,
lacing courses, and stone coped parapeted gable end to right. Patterned
tile roof with ridge cresting, 2 square ridge lights with pyramidal caps,
3 gabled dormers with 2-light casements, and roof extending to right over
gable end to form gabled timber bellcote. 1 storey. 4 bays with paired
cusped windows. Chamfered arched doorway to left with boarded door;
gabled timber porch on flint and stone base. North-west front: paired
transomed cusped windows flanking central buttress with circular sexafoil
window in gable end above. Small gabled entrance lobby projecting to
right with boarded door and arched overlight to north-east, and small
circular window with carved surround in gable end to north-west.

Listing NGR: SU6093078748

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505441

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