Description

ALSAGER FORMER U.D. CHURCH ROAD
SJ 75 NE
6/6 School buildings and
schoolmasters house
-
GV II

School and schoolmasters house. Dated on stone MAT/1851. Red English
bond brick with ashlar dressings and a roof of alternating bands of
plain and fishscale tiles. Single and 2 storeys. East front: school
masters house at left of two storeys. Two bays, that at right being a
projecting gabled wing with 3-light ashlar-surrounded windows to
ground and first floors, that at first floor level having stepped
cusped lights. To left of this is a lean-to porch in the re-entrant
angle and a 2-light window to left with a cross window at first floor
level. At right of this is a single storey school room range which
has a gabled porch at left with stone quoins to its corners (as has
the whole building) and a pointed arched doorway with a moulded
surround. To right of this are three windows, that at left of 3
lights, those to right of 2 lights, all with ashlar surrounds and
cusped heads. The right hand gable end of this block has a central
projecting chimney stack with ashlar dressings and two windows to
either side. The lower quoin at left bears the date. Recessed and
connected to this range at right is a gabled bay with a 3-light window
with cusped heads to the lights. To the right flank of this wing are
3 and 2-light windows with cusped heads.

Listing NGR: SJ7883155664

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q62511908

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