Description

SE 9784 HUTTON BUSCEL MAIN STREET
(south side, off)

15/72 Village Hall and attached
house

GV II

School and schoolhouse; now village hall and house. 1854. By William
Butterfield, for the Downe family. Dressed sandstone with tooled dressings
and quoins; slate roof. L-shaped on plan. Entrance front: single-storey
house of 2 bays, to left of former school; cross wing gable end to right
with single-storey projecting entrance bay in re-entrant angle; further
lean-to outbuilding to right of cross wing. Plank door beneath gabled
trellis porch to schoolhouse, to right of paired 12-pane sashes each in a
pointed surround with unpierced tympanum. Pointed double doors to school,
in quoined, chamfered surround. Massive quoined external stack with steep
offsets to cross wing gable-end, in which a pointed recessed panel in
quoined, chamfered surround contains the Downe arms. Outbuilding has paired
slit lights. Left return of cross wing: tall gabled window of 3 shouldered
lights. Central ridge stack with offsets. Steeply-pitched roofs, half
hipped to left, and pent over entrance bay. Garden front: 1½-storey, 4-bay
front, end left bay gabled and end right bay a lean-to outbuilding. To
left, tall pointed mullion and transom window of 4 lights with geometric
tracery to the head. To centre, two 2-light flat-arched 4-pane sashes with
mullions. 2 similar half dormers under half-hipped gables to attic. Pent
roof to outbuiding, pierced by chimney stack. Gable end to right: plank
door to right in timber porch with bracketed flat hood. Dwarf angle
buttress to right. To left, 12-pane sash in unpierced pointed surround. 2
similar windows above beneath half-hipped gable end. Quoined window
surrounds and mullions are chamfered with run-out stops. P Thompson,
William Butterfield, 1971: p401; fig 333.

Listing NGR: SE9723384049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26441755

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)