Description

FROXFIELD PRIVETT
SU 62 NE
8/5 Privett Centre
23/01/86
GV II
Former church school and master's house. 1867, in a Gothic style. Walls of flint
and knapped flint with brick dressings; triangular-shaped quoins, bands at the
level of upper and lower cills, impost of lower arches, cambered arches, plinth: a
large pointed arch above a relieving arch has herring filling to the spandrel,some
stepped buttresses. Steep tile roof, catslide at rear of house, front gable to
half-dormer, rear gabled dormer, richly ornamented bargeboards. Two-storeyed
house, with a hall school at right-angles, the gap between containing a lower
entrance lobby, with a gable above a door, containing a plaque dated 1867. Leaded
casements to the house, plain wood casements to the school. The house has a gabled
porch with enriched bargeboard, elaborate framework in the gable, resting on turned
balusters, on a stone base wall, the door within being boarded. C20 flat roofed
extensions at the rear with brick walls.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554940

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide