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ST3614 NORTH STREET 1939-1/7/89 (East side) 29/07/76 North Street School and attached walls and railings

GV II

School. Dated 1853. Rough Ham Hill stone ashlar to the front, limestone rubble and brick to the rear, slate roof with brick stacks to the rear building. EXTERIOR: the North Street front, facing west, is single-storey; symmetrical 3-window range in Domestic Tudor/Gothic style. To the central main block are 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with cast-iron frames and small panes: cornice, and a parapet inscribed " National Daily and Sunday Schools, erected by Voluntary Subscription A D 1853"; and to the centre of this is a bellcote with an offset gable and an obelisk finial. Flanked by Gothic-style diagonally-planked door with ornamental strap hinges, and moulded segmental-arched architraves. These are set in gabled walls screening a single-storey lean-to to the left, and a gabled wing to the right. To the rear is a large limestone rubble building with a circular louvre in gable facing west. The east-facing gable with larger circular louvre is entered by a brick staircase to a first-floor door, flanked by 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. The right return is 2 storeys; of 4-window range: the first floor has paired 4/4-pane sashes with thick wooden lintels and brick surrounds; the ground floor has two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with a taller 4-light, 2-transom one to the left and a door to the right. The first floor of the left return has 3 paired 4/4-pane sashes with wooden lintels and a single 4/4 one to the right. The ground floor has 6/6-pane horned sashes and one 3-light mullioned and transomed window to left of centre. INTERIOR: typical of a mid C19 school, with tongue-and-groove panelling to the lower part of the walls. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The forecourt is enclosed by a low Ham Hill stone wall stepped down to the contour of the hill; the piers have pyramidal tops, the railings are wide-spaced long/short spearhead. Substantial stone steps flanked by low walls lead to each door, and the rear building is enclosed by a high rubblestone wall.

Listing NGR: ST3612414622

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