Description

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TL 54 SW GREAT CHESTERFORD SCHOOL STREET

(east side)
C of E Primary School
28/10003 including playground area
wall immediately to west

GV II

National school. 1849 by N J Cottingham probably extended later in C19.
Knapped flint with limestone dressings, on gault brick plinth. Steeply
pitched clay tile roof with bands of fishscale tiles. Stone coped gable
ends with gableted kneelers and finials. Large axial flint stacks with
diagonally-set brick shafts. Plan: Cruciform plan. Master's house in north
range with hall and school rooms in cross-wings to south and pair of small
lavatory wings on north end of master's house. The cross-wing may be a
later C19 addition. Gothic style. Exterior: 1 storey and attic and single
storey cross-wing and south range to right. 3:2:2 windows. 1, 2 and 3-light
ogee-headed windows with wrought-iron stanchions and bars; to left 3 gabled
dormers with cusped bargeboards and wrought-iron finials. Gabled cross-wing
to right of centre with elaborate large buttress between 2 depressed 2-
centre arch windows and with cusped ventilator in gable above and porch in
angle to left with depressed 2-centre arch doorway and studded door with
wrought-iron hinges. Similar rear (east) elevation. South gable end has 3-
light window with reticulated tracery. At north end 2 small single storey
lavatory wings with monopitch roofs. 4 centre arch doorways and 2-light
ogee-headed windows. Interior: Hall has 8-bay roof of 7-cant trusses with
upper curved V-struts and blocked shoulder-headed fireplace. Including:
Playground area wall to west, gault brick with panels of flint and saddle-
back coping.
Source: Drawings in Essex Record Office.

Listing NGR: TL5071642817

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532787

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