Description

HORSFORTH APPERLEY LANE
SE 13 NE
1495-/7/10002 Towlson Memorial Music Room,
School Shop and Domestic Offices
at Woodhouse Grove School
II

Former barn and coach house with stables. Mid C18, converted 1811,
altered c1900, clock tower added 1902, altered 1964. Coursed stone
with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Quoins. Music room and shop,
formerly barn converted to schoolroom 1811. west gable wall has
blocked former central doorway flanked by single round headed
breathers. Above 2 tall round headed windows, with between a plaque
inscribed "WESLYAN ACADEMY OPENED JANUARY 8 : 1812" and above a clock
face. Above in the gable a further plaque commemorating the addition
of the Turret clock, in 1902. Above the gable, a square clock tower
with corner pilasters, bracketed eaves and a pyramidal roof with
weather vane. South front has 2 rows of breathers and five tall round
headed windows, that to the right now part door. North front has to
left blocked threshing doorway, and 3 round headed windows, plus a 4-
panel door, to the right a 6-panel door and beyond a pair of glazing
bar sashes, above 2 plain sashes. Domestic offices,. formerly coach
house and stables, used as chapel 1811-33. 5 window facade, with
slightly projecting 3 window central section topped by a pediment.
Central doorway now a window, with segmental pediment supported on
brackets, eitherside tall glazing bar windows. 3 blocked square
windows, and above a single inserted window which breaks into the
pediment. Eitherside a single round headed coach entrance, that to
the left masked by a lean-to addition, that to the right containing
a pair of inserted casements with a doorway to the left. Above single
square windows that to the left blocked.

Listing NGR: SE1977538276

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533131

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