Description

BINGHAM EAST STREET
SK 7039
(south side)
12/9 Church House
(Playschool)

G.V. II

Church school and teacher's house. Now a playschool. 1845. By
Scott and Moffatt for Canon Miles. Gothic Revival style. Brick
with gabled plain and patterned tile roofs. Chamfered plinth,
diaper work, chamfered eaves, coped gables with kneelers,
terracotta finials and crosses. Ashlar dressings. 2 side wall,
single ridge and single external gable stacks with shoulders and
relief patterned octagonal stalks. Single and 2 storeys, 4 bays.
Irregular L-plan. Windows are transomed lancets with hood
moulds. North front has off-centre gabled wing with porch in
each return angle. To left, 2 buttresses and 2 lancets. To
right, gabled porch with diagonal buttress and four centred
arched door. Above, shield inscribed 'AD 1845'. East side has 2
small lancets. To its right, quadruple lancet with single lancet
above. To right again, porch with four centred arched door and
above, shield inscribed 'Church Schools'. To its right, triple
lancet. Above, cross-eaves gabled dormer with double lancets.
West front has to left, buttress flanked by single lancets and
crosslet in porch. To right, single lancet. South side has off-
centre gabled wing flanked to left by late C19 lean-to addition,
and to right, 2 C20 flat roofed additions. To left, C20 casement
and door. To its right small gabled outbuilding with 3 C20
casements. Above, to left, 2 cross-eaves gabled dormers with
single windows. To right, single lancet. East front has to
left, 2 lancets. East gable has triple lancet and above, single
lancet. Interior has four centred arched doors.

Listing NGR: SK7079039906

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550012

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas