Description

SO 72 SE TIBBERTON TIBBERTON VILLAGE

8/264 Old School
(formerly listed as Former Tibberton
3.2.77 School and School House)

II

Former school and schoolhouse, now house. 1849 for W. P. Price.
School English bond brickwork, house Sussex bond; slate roofs with
bands of shaped slates. House 3-window, 2-room deep, 2 storeys:
school T-plan, 4 bay, single storey. House largely symmetrical,
centre breaks forward slightly: single-storey gabled porch
diagonally-set corner buttresses, stone arch, parapet gable with
cross-gablet apex. Lancet-lights to sides. Front door 3 tall
panels, with glazed sections to top. Either side plain plinth:
2-light wooden mullion and transom window, iron casements, flat
head, stone sill and hoodmould. First floor similar window in
centre, with parapet gable over, stone cross finial. Either side
2-light casement window, otherwise similar: scalloped eaves board
and bargeboards. Crested ridge tiles. Brick gable chimneys each
side of ridge on right, each with 2 octagonal flues and shaped
head. Similar lateral chimney on left. School to left: plinth
as house; 2-light window as house on right: projecting entrance
section, double half-glazed doors under flat head, up one stone
step, stone hoodmould over. Separate stones for inscription and
coat of arms above. Parapet gable with stone cross on apex. To
left similar window; wall breaks forward for gable to cross wing.
Two-light plate tracery stone window with hoodmould, under parapet
gable with stone bellcote. Scalloped eaves board to main section,
either side entrance, 2 rooflights above, octagonal ventilator on
ridge behind porch: crested ridge tiles. Built as 'British
School'.

Listing NGR: SO7584022166

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26446103

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)