Description

HARBERTON
SX7856-SX7956
15/430 HARBERTONFORD
School House

GV II

House, formerly schoolmaster's house to adjacent school. The Old School
(qv). 1849. Slate rubble with granite dressings. Steeply pitched asbestos
slate roof with cross-gables left and right with ornate pierced
bargeboards. Rendered chimney stacks on side walls. Tudor style.
Plan: 2 principal front rooms with central lobby entrance between with a
porch and with service rooms in rear outshut.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 2-window front. Central steeply
pitched gabled porch with ornate pierced bargeboards and chamfered 4-centred
arch doorway with glazed door. Left and right to ground and first floors
chamfered granite mullion 3-light windows with cement weathered lintels.
Similar single light attic window in each gable.
Rear outshut extended and heightened in C20.
Interior not inspected.
Note: "in 1849 Richard Browne Esq of Englebourne gave a house for the use
of the master" (Whites).
Source: White's Directory of 1878.

Listing NGR: SX7839756229

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26683578

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)