Description

ABBOTSHAM
SS42NW
2/1 Abbotsham Church of
England Primary
School and attached
gateway.
GV. II
School and schoolmaster's house, now primary school. Datestone
to front records date of building as 1851, at expense of W.
Cheywood Esq, of Kenwith Castle (q.v.). Coursed slatestone
rubble; gabled slate roof; stone end stacks. School room placed
to right of schoolmaster's house. Style is mixture of Domestic
Tudor and Gothic. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Gabled and
stone-coped porch with pointed chamfered archway, and segmental
stone arch over C20 inner door. Porch is flanked by tympanum
arches over two mid C19 ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned and
transomed 3-light windows; similar windows to first floor on left
and similar one-light window to left-hand bay of ground floor.
Two plank doors to left, and inserted late C19 chamfered
wood-mullioned and transomed 3-light window in blocked doorway to
lower bay on right. Similar ovolo-moulded windows to rear.
Subsidiary features: gateway attached to right, which enters
churchyard of the Church of St. Helen (q.v.), has pediment-shaped
stone-coped parapet above segmental-arched doorway. Included for
group value.

Listing NGR: SS4245226441

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26464264

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)