Description

ST 77 NW DODINGTON C.P. WAPLEY HILL (east side)

5/79 Old School House and two attached
cottages

- II

School, now disused, and 2 attached cottages. Late C17 cottages, mid C19 school,
C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Rubble, stone dressings, double Roman
tiled roofs with brick and stone stacks. L-plan group, picturesque Gothic style
school. Single storey school has south elevation with 2 windows, each in small
gable with bargeboards, each of 2 lights with trefoil heads and chamfered stone
surround, central broach stack, buttresses, string course below cills, projecting
eaves, crestings; wooden gabled porch to right with pierced trefoils in gable,
rubble plinth, plain door. Left return gable end of school has 4-light window
with pointed arched heads, 3 multi-foil lights above, chamfered surround,
buttresses, string course, bargeboards to gable. 1½ storey cottages to left have
5 windows at ground floor and one blocked to left, all C20 casements except to
right a 3-light casement with ovolo mullions and hood mould, 2nd from right and
2nd from left formerly doors; 3 small gables with bargeboards, each with 2-light
casement, to right with ovolo mullions and hood mould, 2 roof lights and 3 brick
ridge stacks. East elevation of cottages has 3 windows at ground floor, to left
of 2 lights with ovolo mullion and hood mould, 2 to right C20, doors 2nd from left
and 2nd from right; 2 gables with bargeboards, larger to left with 2-light
casement, ovolo mullion and hood mould, C20 2-light casement to right with
chamfered timber lintel; wall set back to rear. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7125279750

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26506444

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House