Description

MANATON MANATON
SX 77 NE
5/67 Church House School
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GV II

Former national school converted into a house. Dated 1859.
Granite rubble walls with larger granite quoins and dressed granite doorways and
window surrounds. Dry Welsh slate roof with gabled ends and deep eaves and verges.
Small brick ridge stacks with granite caps.
Gothic style. School room with gabled wing at front flanked by lean-to entrance
porches in the angles under swept down roof. Originally single storey with later
floor inserted. West front has large pointed arched window without chamfer in
centre of gable, window is 3-light timber mullion with cross transom. Tablet
below the sill inscribed "Manaton National School erected A.D. 1859". In each
flanking porch is pointed arched doorway chamfered with pyramid stops and dressed
granite voussoirs. Gable ends of main range have large pointed arched windows with
timber mullion/transom frames. Ventilation slit in gable above. Porches have
small 2-light wood casements on inside walls. 2 C20 casements inserted in rear
wall with a C20 gabled dormer windows above.
Interior floored and converted into house, not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7506081227

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618854

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)