Description

COTLEIGH COTLEIGH
ST 20 SW
11/12 The Old School House
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- II
House, former school house. Circa 1870, circa 1970 rear extension. Exposed local
stone and flint rubble with cream-coloured sandstone ashlar detail and dressings and
including some decorative brick; stone rubble and brick stack topped with plastered
C20 brick; red tile roof including bands of scallop-shaped tiles and crested ridge
tiles, asbestos slate roof to the C20 extension.
Plan: 2-room plan house facing east. The left (south) room has a rear lateral
stack. Central entrance hall. C20 service extension projects at right angles to
rear of the right (north) side. 2 storeys. Tudor Gothic style.
Exterior: symmetrical 2-window front arranged around a central doorway behind an
original gabled porch which contains a part-glazed 4-panel door. It is flanked by
horned 4-pane sashes with sandstone reveals. At first floor level is a flat stone
platband. On the first floor there is a single central window; a round-head
casement with Y-tracery glazing bars and sandstone architrave. It rises into the
eaves and the gable over it (like the porch gable below) has cusped bargeboards.
This window is flanked by sandstone quatrefoil panels. Each end are sandstone
ashlar quoins and there is an eaves cornice of red brick set at 45 degrees to the
wall. The roof is gable-ended and the left gable has cusped bargeboards and the
windows below are horned 4-pane sashes. The right gable has a first floor casement
and surround made of cream-coloured brick.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST2039602225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618398

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas