Description

REIGATE LONDON ROAD
TQ 2550 SW
(north-west side)
12/285
Church of England
First School
GV II

School. 1854 by Henry Clutton; altered. Gault brick in Flemish bond with ashlar
dressings; roofs of plain tiles with decorative bands of pointed tiles (no banding
to renewed front roof pitch of main range). One storey. W-shaped plan, originally
having boys' school in gabled left hand wing, girls' school in 5-bay front range,
and infants' school in 1 x 5-bay gabled right hand wing which is set back and now
linked to front range by small added block (formerly a pent-roofed porch). In Gothic
style having: chamfered plinths; openings with 2-centred arches and quoined
surrounds, the windows with wood mullions and diamond-patterned glazing bars, the
doors board with decorative hinges; gables each have a 4-light window with slit
vent over and barge boards with pendant finials. Main elevation: on left, gabled
end of wing projects and has offset diagonal buttress on left. Main range has
central combined chimney and bell-tower with corniced brick stack on left of bell-
cote, flanked by 3-light windows with skylights above. Link bay, set slightly back
on right, has quoins on right, door, 2-light window and coped parapet. Gabled right-
hand wing: the window has lost the glazing bars. Right return: wing: offset buttress
on left; central lateral stack with two 2-light windows (glazing bars gone) to left
one to right and gabled, ashlar porch to far right having square-headed I-light
window in left return. Left return: 1:5 bays, left bay a lower, flat-roofed addition
and as link bay at front. Wing has central lateral stack flanked by 3-light windows;
2 skylights; brick addition in front of stack not of special interest. Rear: on
left, wing is of rubblestone brought to course, the window without glazing bars;
set back on its right is added, parallel wing having inserted door, 3-light
segmental-arched window with occulus over, and 2 similar 2-light windows to right
return. Main range has 2 short, gabled wings projecting, flanking a stack, and
each with a 3-light segmental-arched window.

Listing NGR: TQ2509050416

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551532

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