Description

NZ 6518 SKELTON & BROTTON SOUTH TERRACE, Skelton

7/48 Nursery School and School
House

II

School, and school house now nursery school, and house, early/mid C19, with
slightly later rear and right extensions. Dressed sandstone. Steeply-
pitched Welsh slate roof with stone ridge and gable copings and stone ridge
stack at left end of school. Single-storey school of 5 bays. Hollow-
chamfered cross windows. Slightly projecting, extruded, gabled porch in
angle of school and house, with Tudor-arched doorway and diagonally- boarded
door on ornamental iron hinges. Stone fleuron finial to gable. Small
extension at right end. House adjoining left, forms projecting gabled cross
wing. 2 storeys, one bay. Entered from school porch and rear. Hollow-
chamfered cross window on ground floor, mullioned window on first floor,
with sashes and hoodmoulds. String course between floors and at eaves of
left return which has similar windows in its left end. Similar, slightly
lower, 2-storey rear extension to house and lower single-storey rear
extensions to school. School has Queen-post roof trusses with arched
braces.

Listing NGR: NZ6548618836

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543563

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2