Description

SK 44 SE AWSWORTH THE LANE

4/10002 Infant School

GV II

Infant School. 1878. Red brick with ashlar and yellow terracotta
dressings. Slate roofs with ornate ridge tiles and finials plus
a single tall red brick gable stack. Chamfered brick plinth and
chamfered eaves cornice, and 'egg and dart' moulded gable eaves.
East street front has central segment headed cross casement
flanked by single taller segment headed cross-casements in
slightly projecting sections which rise into pedimented gables.
Each has moulded terracotta impost blocks moulded lintels, above
terracotta bands inscribed INFANT and SCHOOL, and in the gables
small circular windows with terracotta surrounds with four
keystones.
South front has a single gable front with bnpartite cross-
casements, the central section taller with a segment head and
above a further circular window with terracotta surround and
keystones.
West playground front has a tall segment headed cross-casement
which rises into a pedimented gable with moulded terracotta
inpost blocks moulded lintel, above a terracotta band and in the
gable a further small circular window.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567382

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)