Description

SO 97 NW CLENT CP OLDNALL LANE (south aide)
Clent

6/68 The Schoolhouse

II

School and adjoining schoolhouse; now house. Early C18; altered and
extended c1840. Brick, part roughcast, painted and stuccoed; plain tiled
roofs with fishscale tiled boarding, some pierced scalloped bargeboards,
decorative ridge tiles and ridge stacks. T-plan with two-bay former school-
house aligned east/west and four-bay schoolroom at west gable end. Single
storey and attic with dormers; three-course band between storeys of former
schoolhouse; two-course band at eaves level on side elevation of two northern-
most bays of schoolroom with similar band at north gable end forming impost
band. Main north elevation: schoolhouse has two ground floor C19 canted bay
windows with hipped roofs (which interrupt two-course band) and casement
windows; two gabled dormers with pierced scalloped bargeboards and 2-light
casements; central C19 gabled porch with similarly decorated bargeboards, a
ledged and battened door and rectangular lights in side elevations. School-
room projects to right and has two rectangular blocked windows in its gable
end with dripmoulds; two similar square windows and central doorway in angle
with schoolhouse. Interior: schoolhouse has timber-framed central wall
with rendered infill. The two southernmost bays of the schoolroom are mid-C19.
Also C19 additions to west elevation.

Listing NGR: SO9271479347

Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)