Description

SJ 45 NW ALDFORD C.P. CHESTER ROAD
(West side)

6/7 2 Old School Houses

II

Former Schoolhouse, opened April 1872 (Aldford Boys School Logbook in
Cheshire Record Office), closed as a school in 1912 and converted to 2
cottages. Built at the expense of the 3rd Marquis of Westminster
adjoining the site of an earlier school (tithe map for Aldford 1837 in
Cheshire Record Office). Brown brick, English garden wall bond, on
battered plinth of squared snecked rubble sandstone; half timbered
gables. Steeply pitched red tile roofs with 2 rectangular brick
chimneys on main ridge. One and a half storeys with a front of 4
windows. The former school hall, left, has gables to front and end on
stone corbels; the Schoolmaster's house, right, has a half dormer
gable to front and, central, a small dormer under a raking roof.
Small-pane iron casements in bevelled mullioned openings of sandstone
in the lower storey and timber-framed openings in the upper one.
Framed and boarded doors. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4209559077

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q65929983

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)