Description

BRIXHAM

SX9055 ALSTON LANE, Churston Ferrers
1946-1/6/39 (East side)
10/01/75 The Old School House
(Formerly Listed as:
ALSTON LANE, Churston Ferrers
Old School and School House)

GV II

School and schoolmaster's house, now 2 houses. Dated 1864.
Coursed, squared Devonian limestone rubble with large dressed
quoins of the same material. Slated roofs. Large red-brick
chimney on centre of ridge at the house; top brick courses
project to form a cap; 5 round pots. Similar chimney on front
wall of school, adjoining the house.
Plan: Double-fronted schoolmaster's house to left. L-shaped
school to right, abutting the house; its right gable fronts
Brixham road.
Exterior: Large entrance-porch in the angle of the L. 1
storey; with garret on the house. Tudor-style. House is 2
windows wide with centre doorway having a shallow segmental
arch; chamfered jambs, chamfered cornice; plank door with
strap-hinges. To right a window with chamfered surround and
cornice; 2-light wood casement with 6 panes per light. To left
a square bay window with pent-roof; 1 large window with plain
3-light wood casement at front; similar single-light windows
at sides. Garret has 2 dormer gables of slightly differing
design; plain bargeboards, windows with chamfered surrounds.
Wood casements, 2 lights to left, 1 to right, both with 2
panes per light.
Main feature of the school is a large gabled wing to left with
2 tall chamfered windows; late C20 small-paned wood glazing,
evidently re-designed when an upper floor was inserted. In the
gable a stone plaque with monogram (probably of Lord Churston)
having coronet over and date 1864. Entrance-porch to right has
plank door with strap-hinges facing Alston Lane and, in the
gable facing Brixham Road, a chamfered window with 2-light
wood casement having 4 panes per light. On the roof the school
bell is wooden bell-turret with pitched slated roof. To right
of porch is a large slate-hung late C20 dormer. The right-hand
section of the school has 2 pairs of chamfered windows
flanking a chimney-breast with off-sets; 2-light wood
casements with 6 panes per light.
Built up against the gable to Brixham Road is a small original
lean-to. This has a plank door facing Alston Lane and a
chamfered window facing Brixham Road; the latter contains a
3-light wood casement with 4 panes per light. The garden walls
and railings are listed separately (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9009755749

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585766

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)