Description

SP 72 NW
6/1

ADDINGTON

School House

(Formerly listed as The Old School House)

21/11/75

II

Former school and school-master's house, now house. Dated 1876 on
chimney plaque. Gift of R. Hon. J.G. Hubbard M.P. later Lord Addington.
Red brick with bands of blue brick and stone dressings. Tiled roof
with ornamental panelled bargeboards. Picturesque Jacobeathan style.
School room of one storey to right has two gabled bays of 3-light stone
mullioned windows with bonded stone surrounds, small square centre
lights over and small stone roundels at apex of gable. Elaborate
external chimney stack between bays has decorative date plaque and
octagonal stone shaft. Door to left has open timber porch with hipped
roof, ogee arch with ornamented spandrels to front and balusters with
decorative cusping to side. Enclosed porch to right gable is half-
timbered with some herringbone brick infill and pointed arched door.
Open bellcote over right hand bay has shingled spirelet. School-
master's house in cross wing to left has hipped roof and tall Jacobeathan
chimney shafts. Two storeys. Gable to front has 3-light sash window
with stone mullions to first floor and square bay window with similar
lights and hipped roof below.

Listing NGR: SP7419428708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576950

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Recommended Books

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)