Description

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PITTON AND FARLEY
FARLEY
SU22NW
676-1/10/10004 Farley Primary School
GV II

School. 1867, by George Aitchison. Built of red brick with hipped Welsh slate roofs and
brick stack. Rectangular plan with schoolmasters's house to right of front. One-storey
schoolroom has broad bracketted eaves; small-paned windows, set in 3 semi-circular arches
to left and in smaller opening under flat arch to right of half-glazed doors set in moulded and
slightly-projecting architrave with outer brick moulding and splayed cornice rising to eaves;
moulded cill and impost courses. 2-storey master's house has broad bracketted eaves; gable
facing to left, with pilasters dividing 3-light window with flat brick arches over 6/6-pane
sashes; similar arch over 1/1-pane ground-floor sash; set back to right is lean-to porch with
shouldered arch to doorway set below two 4/4-pane sashes under similar arches. Rear
includes similar arched windows to schoolroom and glazing bar sashes to master's house.
Interior includes original joinery. A carefully detailed and massed composition by a
noteworthy local architect. Aitchison was also the architect of the primary school at East
Knoyle (qv).

Listing NGR: SU2247429583

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534956

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)