Description

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SD40NW SCHOOL LANE, Westhead 663-1/4/191 (East side) St James C of E School with attached masters house

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School with attached master's house. Dated 1889 on chimney stack of left wing. Crazed sandstone, slate roof. T-plan formed by main range with crosswing to left, plus master's house attached at right-hand end. Gothic style. The SCHOOL is single-storeyed with a 4-window main range, 4-centred arched 2-light windows with Y-tracery, a Tudor-arched doorway in the re-entrant of the wing, a 3-light window in the gable of the wing with a quatrefoil in the head. The returned side of the wing has (inter alia) and a tall octagonal chimney with the date "1889" at eaves level; and a large gable towards the rear, with a 3-light window. The MASTER'S HOUSE to the right is 2-storeyed under steeply pitched coupled gables, with two 4-pane sashed windows on each floor and a 4-centred arched doorway in the centre of the ground floor; and ridge chimneys.

Listing NGR: SD4423007649

External Links

• Wikidata Q26584913

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