Description

SU78SW
1209/0/10018

BIX AND ASSENDON
LOWER ASSENDON
The Old School House

II

Parish school, converted into house. c1840-50; altered and extended in c1880s. Flint rubble with red brick dressings. Clay plain tile roof with coped gable ends with small stone fleur-de-lys finials. Brick lateral stack at rear within outshut. PLAN: original rectangular-plan school with entrance porch on right of south front; Tudor Gothic style. In c1880s it was converted into a house, a 1-room plan wing and outshut were built at the rear and the original school room was subdivided and ceiled to form one large and another smaller room. EXTERIOR: single storey. Asymmetrical south front; two 2-light lattice-pane casements in chamfered brick openings with hoodmoulds; large gabled porch on right with chamfered pointed arch doorway with hoodmould and plank door. The west gable-end has panel with shield. At the rear a brick outshut on left and a rendered gable-ended wing on right. INTERIOR: school room walls now lined and roof ceiled in matchboarding; matchboard partition to smaller room at west end; main room has lateral fireplace at rear with range. Room in rear wing has small cast-iron chimneypiece. Plank doors.

Listing NGR: SU7458184678

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561908

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)