Description

SU23SW
1379/7/10006
22-MAR-01

PITTON AND FARLEY
WHITE HILL
Pitton Church of England Primary School

GV
II

Parish school. 1850; altered 1886. Red brick with blue brick diapering. Welsh slate roof with ornate bargeboards with pendants to the gable ends. Brick gable-end stacks with set-offs, the left with rendered shaft, the right truncated.
PLAN: Rectangular on plan, comprising two rooms, the smaller infants' classroom on the left and the larger school room on the right, with large double doors between; a doorway at the front of each room, the central doorway to the main school room has porch, which was extended at the front in 1886.
Victorian Picturesque style.
EXTERIOR: Single storey. 4-bay NE front with three 12-pane sashes with weathered brick cills; plain doorway to left of centre with plank door; large brick porch at centre with side doorways and small side wings, the front of the porch with 3-light casement with glazing bars and gable with shaped bargeboards with pendant and stone shield below dated 1850 over riband inscribed "Feed My Lambs". The gable ends each have central stack with weathered set-offs flanked by narrow 8-pane sashes with cambered brick arches. At rear [SW] 12-pane sashes to left and right and small C20 single-storey wing at centre.
INTERIOR: Two rooms, smaller infants' classroom [now office] on left and larger schoolroom on right, with large panelled double-doors between. Both rooms are open to the scissor-braced truss roof with a pendant at the apex of each truss.

Listing NGR: SU2101631434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539296

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living