Description

LAZENBY HIGH STREET, south side.
NZ 51 NE
7/20 Village Hall and gatepiers
- II

School, and schoolmaster's house, now village hall, 1867. Brick with stone
dressings, quoins and continuous plinth. Welsh slate roofs. Stone gable
copings, moulded kneelers and crested ridge tiles on school. Roughly
"L"-plan range. Single-storey, 3-bay school, with 3-stage tower/porch
adjoining left end. Recessed round-headed panelled door in chamfered
surround with carved shouldered head under continuous hoodmould. Short
diagonal buttress at left. Middle stage has chamfered square panel with
shield dated 1867, under hoodmould, and trefoil-headed sash window in left
return. String course between middle and uppermost stage which has paired
small square windows with stop-chamfered surrounds. Brick dogtooth band
below bracketed eaves of steeply-pitched hipped roof, sprocketed at eaves,
with louvered gablet bell openings, and fancy iron ridge cresting. School
has chamfered pointed windows, with battered sills and trefoil-headed
sashes, in groups of 2 and 3. Sill string. Iron tie plates and linking bar
above middle window. Iron vane finial at right end. Former schoolmaster's
house adjoins left, at rear of tower: 1½ storeys, one window. 2-light
chamfered-mullioned ground-floor window with segmental-pointed head, and
similar first-floor window in hipped half-dormer, all with sashes. Deep
overhanging eaves with shaped rafter-ends. Hipped roof has transverse ridge
stack with 3 conjoined lozenge shafts. Left return has 3 similar
ground-floor windows and 2 half-dormers. Right return of school has pointed
window with Geometric tracery under hoodmould with carved stops. Late C20
door inserted at left. Circular, louvred opening in octagonal surround
under hoodmould in gable. Rear of school shows reduced external stack with
offsets, and extruded lean-to porch with 4-panel door. Gatepiers at
entrance have chamfered plinth, and gabled cap ornamented with roll
mouldings, blind trefoils and quadrant corbel table.

Listing NGR: NZ5719619718

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26597476

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