Description

NZ 22 SE GREAT AYCLIFFE SCHOOL AYCLIFFE LANE
(North side)
10/19 Nurses' Teaching Centre,
wall and gate-piers

II

House with garden wall attached to north-west and gates and gate-piers attached
to south-east. Pebble-dashed masonry; rubble sandstone wall and iron gates.
Villa dated 1835 on right rainwater head; mid C19 gates and piers. 2 storeys,
5 bays with low plinth. Central 6-panel door, with 3-pane side lights and
overlight with patterned radial glazing, in pedimented Tuscan porch. 12-pane
sashes with projecting sills; slightly-elongated windows to ground floor and
blocked window above porch. Tall parapet, with band and flat coping, conceals
low-pitched roof. Set-back addition to right has elliptical carriage arch,
parallel bands above and conceals lean-to additions to right return. Large
24-pane stair window to rear. Interior has several 6-panel doors in architraves
with angle paterae. High wall, to north-west, runs west for c.40 metres and
has flat coping. Square-plan gate-piers with low pyramidal caps; pair of gates
with alternating standards and dogbars and square principals with urn finials.

Listing NGR: NZ2587923590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453412

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)