Description

TL1258 CAMPTON RECTORY ROAD (South Side)

10/15 Campton Lower School and
Schoolhouse

- II

School and schoolhouse. 1875. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Clay tile
roof with bands of fishscale tiles and ridge cresting. Complex plan, the
school to the S single-storeyed, the house to the N rising to the same height
but of one storey and attics, the N blocks narrower with more steeply pitched
roofs. Total structure is roughly L-shaped. Road elevation, school to LH: LH
projecting gable has 2 2-light mullion and transom windows and small paired
lights to apex. RH block has plank door with strap hinges under cambered
head, 5-light mullioned window, and square bell-cote with sprocketed pyramidal
roof. Schoolhouse to RH: LH projecting gable has canted bay to ground floor
and 2-light window above. RH block has plank door within angle under hipped
tiled hood, 2-light window to ground floor, and gabled dormer above with 2-
light window. All windows mullioned. Paired octagonal stacks with moulded
cornices to rear of RH block and to side of LH block at junction with school.
All gables have stone coping.

Listing NGR: TL1283438143

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26607668

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)