Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/02/2017

SK 58 NM,
7/118

LAUGHTON-EN-LE-MORTHEN,
HIGH STREET (north side),
All Saints C. E. (Aided) School

(Parish previously listed as: Thurcroft)

(formerly listed as Village School)

29.03.68

GV

II

School. Early C17, extended 1850; C20 alterations and addition. C17 work of
rubble limestone, C19 work ashlar limestone; Welsh-slate roof. Two storeys
and attic, 3 x 1-bay C17 range extended to right under same roof by 1-storey,
2-bay addition of 1850. C17 part on left has chamfered plinth and large
quoins; porch to right has blocked, arched doorway, shaped kneelers, gable
copings with finial and glazed roof; double-chamfered, mullioned windows on
left of three, two, and three lights have dripstones; matching 1st-floor windows of
three, three, and two lights. 1850 part to right: plinth and quoins; offset lateral
stack with recessed date (?) plaque, chimney shaft removed; cross window and
transomed 3-light double-chamfered window beneath dripstone on right. Roll-
moulded gable copings with apex finial bases to each end of range, ridge
ventilator. Rear: upper wall now glazed as a clerestorey.
Left return: cemented 5-light mullioned window with dripstone beneath,
double-chamfered 3-light mullioned window with dripstone and similar,
blocked, 2-light attic window. Right return: C19 chamfered, pointed doorway
on left of transomed 3-light window, slit window to gable. Built on land
given to Anthony Eyre and Edmund Laughton sometime between 1610 and 1619
(Hey, p132). C20 additions not of special interest.
D. Hey, Buildings of Britain 1550-1750, Yorkshire, 1971 (plate).

Listing NGR: SK5174788251

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601109

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