Description

SJ 35 NE POULTON C.P. STRAIGHT MILE
(West side)

The Schoolhouse
5/157 (Former Schoolhouse and
Schoolmaster's House)

II

Former Schoolhouse and Master's House, now one dwelling, 1866 for the
2nd Marquis of Westminster. Brown brick with grey slate gabled roofs
and 2 diminishing brick chimneys. An almost symmetrical house of 1½
storeys and 2 windows with schoolhouse attached to left with gable to
road. Mullioned and transomed sandstone window openings with
sandstone cills and label-mould lintels. Datestone above window to
school hall with Grosvenor Sheaf and crest. Iron diamond-pane
casements to front and left end. Framed and boarded front door.
External alterations in modern idiom are. confined to the rear.
The interior is altered, with the Schoolhouse converted to part of the
dwelling.
A mounting block cut from a single stone is by the path close to the
schoolmaster's house.
Before conversion to part of the house, the schoolhouse was used as St
Chad's Mission Church.

Listing NGR: SJ3934759309

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431575

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide