Description

SP 82 NE SOULBURY HIGH ROAD
(east side)

3/55 The Old School

GV II

Former school. Circa 1870, probably by G.E. Street. Red brick
with stripes and diapers of blue brick, and stone plinth moulding,
sill course and windows. Buttresses, chimneys and bell-tower have
sloping off-set stone sides. Tiled roof with ornamental bands
of fishscale tiles and cusped bargeboards. L-plan with lobby
and bell-tower in angle. One storey, 2 bays to road. Left bay is
gabled and projecting with flanking buttresses and 3-light plate
tracery window with incised floral decoration. Cusped roundel
above at apex of gable, both windows with flanking stone impost
bands and gauged brick surrounds. Gables of rear cross wing have
similar treatment but each with a pair of 2-light windows. Right bay
has chimney and lean-to lobby with quatrefoil window to left and
bell-tower over arched door to right. Bell-tower has lancet window,
stone broach to octagonal wooden bell-cote, and tall slated spirelet
with cast iron finial.

Listing NGR: SP8827127126

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513890

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record