Description

SU 27 SE RAMSBURY BACK LANE (south side)

10/181 No 5 and The Gallery

16.6.78

II

Church of England girl's school and school house, now house and gallery. c1852-1860. Brick laced flint with tiled roof. House to left, 1-storey and attic. 3 bays symmetrical about 2-storey porch with pointed brick arch entrance. Timber casement windows with brick segmental arches and filled spandrils, diamond leading. Room over porch has 4-light window and tile hung gable. Small gable over right bay. Link block of 1-storey 1 bay leads into school. Matching materials, 4-bay schoolroom with lean-to cloaks-lobby on gable. Later C19 additional classrooms to rear with cloakroom forming small light well. Main schoolroom has tall 3-light timber Gothic windows rising into half hipped flush dormers. Leaded glazing. Interior: Steep pitched open roof with arched braced trusses on corbels, giving parabolic form.

Listing NGR: SU2747571649

External Links

• Wikidata Q26647139

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