Description

CORSHAM LACOCK ROAD
ST 8770
(south side)
5/241
Corsham Further Education Centre
GV II

Former school, 1816 and mid C19, coursed rubble stone with hipped
low slate roofs. Rear range is original 1816 building, single
storey with flush quoins, ashlar plinth and eaves band. Windows
are mullioned with cusped heads and hoodmoulds. Two 3-lights to
north front, left, two 3-lights to east end, door and three 3-
lights to rear, and 2-light and 3-light to west end. North front
right has projecting mid C19 addition with hipped roof. Projecting
gabled porch with moulded door surround, Tudor-arched overlight and
hoodmould, single light with hoodmould to left, two 3-light
mullion-and-transom windows with hoodmoulds to right. Between
windows reset plaque 'This School Room for the instruction of poor
children was erected by P.C. Methuen Esqr AD 1816'. West end of
addition has 2-light mullion-and-transom window, east end has
single light and 3-light windows with hoodmoulds.

Listing NGR: ST8723070193

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645794

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)