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Latitude: 51.4773 / 51°28'38"N
Longitude: -0.8688 / 0°52'7"W
OS Eastings: 478659
OS Northings: 175974
OS Grid: SU786759
Mapcode National: GBR C5L.967
Mapcode Global: VHDWV.W4LC
Plus Code: 9C3XF4GJ+WF
Entry Name: The Old School
Listing Date: 30 June 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1118158
English Heritage Legacy ID: 41408
ID on this website: 101118158
Location: Twyford, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG10
County: Wokingham
Civil Parish: Twyford
Built-Up Area: Twyford
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Ruscombe and Twyford
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: School building
The following Building shall be added
TWYFORD
SU77NE POLEHAMPTON CLOSE
2/10000 The Old School
GV II
Former school. c1887, erected by The Polehampton Trust. Grey Reading
brick with red Reading brick pilasters, strips, panels, cornices and
dressings to windows, chimneys and gables. Tiled roofs with segmental
and triangular pedimented Flemish gables having terracotta ball
finials and, to the main elevation, a tall enriched brick chimney
stack. Queen Anne style. Open courtyard plan with projection to east.
Single storey. Plain entrance on main facade within a gabled lower
wing, partly timber framed and having 4 lights with glazing bars
beneath a tile hung gable with a vertically set window. Main windows
are tall sashes with glazing bars and gauged brick segmental heads
with keystones; western facing gable windows of Venetian type. Well
detailed terracotta airbricks and metal bootscraper and rosette
rainwater pipe brackets. Interior retains original features including
open timber roof trusses. This school was built on the site of the
demolished chapel of a school founded in 1721 by Edward Polehampton
for the education of 10 poor Twyford boys. The masters house still
exists (qv) and the school is attached to it, being a replacement for
the original school room; it was still only for boys, a girls and
infants school being built the following year in the village.
Listing NGR: SU7865975974
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