Description

SP 82 NE SOULBURY CHAPEL HILL

3/43 No. 1 (Lovett House) and
wall attached to rear
(formerly listed as The
Old School House)

26.9.51

GV II*

House Very worn stone plaque to centre front is inscribed: "Lovett's
Charity School and Schoolhouse 17?" (1724 according to Pevsner and
VCH) Possibly designed by Thomas Harris of Cublington. Red and
vitreous brick with red brick quoins, window surrounds, first
floor band course and moulded eaves Moulded plinth. Tiled roof
with brick coped gables, and brick chimneys to gables and between
bays 6 and 7. 2 storeys and attic, 9 bays Main floors have leaded
cross casements with moulded brick sills, ground floor, windows with
gauged brick heads, first floor windows with moulded brick lintels.
Attic has 4 hipped dormers with paired leaded casements. Blocked basement
window to left of centre. Entries in bays 3 and 7 have 6-panelled
doors with rectangular fanlights, and moulded segmental hoods
on carved scroll brackets. Right hood slightly altered. Stone
plaque below central first floor window. Similar stone plaque in
chamfered brick surround in left gable end. Rear is more irregular
and has similar windows with gauged segmental heads, some blocked.
Bay to right of centre has gable above eaves cornice, and staircase
window. Interior has good early C18 staircase with twisted balusters,
moulded handrail and square newel posts with pendent finials. Small
stone fireplaces, stop-chamfered spine beams. Room to ground floor
right may have been original school room Short length of wall
attached to N.W. corner is of red brick with blue diapers and semi-
circular coping.

VCH III p.415.

Listing NGR: SP8828427108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536131

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)