Description

PAYHEMBURY
ST 00 SE
3/112 Payhembury School
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GV II

School. Dated 1851, extended in the late C19. Local stone rubble, the original
school is faced with snecked grey limestone ashlar; sandstone ashlar detail; stone
rubble stack topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof.
Plan: school faces south-east. It is set back from the road set high on a terrace.
It has a 3 or 4-room plan. The right half is the original section and has a central
front porch and rear lateral stack. The right-hand addition continues the same
roofline and is a plainer Tudor Gothic style than the original. Single storey.
Exterior: the original school has a symmetrical 2-window front, a stone-mullioned
3-light window with hoodmould either side of a gabled porch. Front window of the
porch is arch-headed with stone Y-tracery. Above is a plaque with a Gothic
inscription; "Payhembury National School, 1851". Plain door in right side.
Extension has an irregular 2-window front of plain stone-mullioned windows, the
larger right one has a gable over containing a small oculus. Roof is gable-ended.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST0872801684

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Payhembury School official website
• Wikidata Q26390322

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)