Latitude: 53.1649 / 53°9'53"N
Longitude: -2.8071 / 2°48'25"W
OS Eastings: 346134
OS Northings: 363390
OS Grid: SJ461633
Mapcode National: GBR 7F.4NLW
Mapcode Global: WH88G.VQF2
Plus Code: 9C5V557V+X4
Entry Name: School and Schoolmaster's House
Listing Date: 30 January 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1330262
English Heritage Legacy ID: 55535
ID on this website: 101330262
Location: Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH3
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Civil Parish: Waverton
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Waverton St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Building
SJ 46 SE WAVERTON C.P. THE VILLAGE
(West Side)
2/25 School and
Schoolmaster's House
GV II
Former school and schoolmaster's house, now parish hall and house:
dated 1877 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of, Westminster.
Schoolmaster's house has English garden wall band orange brick with
red sandstone dressings and planted timber framing on the upper
storey. Red tile roof and 2 lateral brick chimneys. 2-storey, 3-bay
west front. Stone plinth and stringcourses. Central doorway behind
oriel window supported on wooden columns on low stone walls.
4-centred arched doorcase under label mould. Door of tall vertical
panels with iron strap hinges. 3-light casement above and to left is
a 5-light stone mullioned window. Pair of small outbuildings with
hipped roofs attached. Right gable has canted stone bay window below
upper storey jettied out on wooden brackets. Date on tiebeam over
4-light casement.
School in ashlar red sandstone, connected to house by 1-storey
passage. Has 1-storey, 5-bay south front under hipped roof with
bellcote incorporated at the left end. Central 3 bays have 4-light
mullioned and transomed windows with 4-centred arched lights above a
continuous sill band. Each has stone-coped and finialled gable above.
Door at left with 4-centred arched head and 4-light mullioned window
at right end. 3 small gabled ventilators in roof. Additional hipped
porch at right end with similar doorcase.
Interior: One large room open to roof, with mansard shaped trusses,
which can be divided by sliding half-glazed panels. Small classroom
to rear and cloakrooms at either end.
Listing NGR: SJ4613463390
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