Description

STANHOPE A689 (North side)
NY 8738
Ireshopeburn
36/104 Rancho del Rio

GV II

School, now restaurant and public house. 1854, for W. Beaumont, M.P., 'aided
by subscriptions from his agents, miners and others for the education of all
religious denominations' according to resited inscription stone. Later porch.
Coursed squared sandstone with chamfered plinth, pecked quoins and ashlar
dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Symmetrical. Main block
one storey, 11 bays, the central projecting, quoined and gabled with lower
gabled porch. Slightly set-back one-storey, one-bay wings. Diagonally-boarded
central door with elaborate hinges under 2-centred arch with voussoirs; trefoil-
pierced bargeboards on porch gable. Flanking 5-bay sections have large 16-pane
sashes, with ventilators replacing some panes,with flat stone lintels and
projecting stone sills. Altered windows in wings. Roof gable copings on main
block are chamfered and rest on moulded kneelers (one lost); flat copings on
wings. 4 corniced ashlar ridge chimneys, with tall red pots except for right
which is truncated.

Listing NGR: NY8737338517

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523357

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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