Description

SD 52SW LEYLAND CHURCH ROAD

8/24 Old Grammar School and attached
26.7.1951 cottage
(Formerly listed as The Old Grammar
GV II School and No. 24)

Grammar School, late C16 or early C17, with attached master's cottage dated
1790; now museum. Gable end to road, in corner of churchyard. Brick, with
stone plinth and quoins, slate roof, gable chimney at left end, and very
large external chimney stack at right end, which has scored rendering.
School is rectangular, 4 bays and 2 storeys; cottage attached at south east
corner is one bay of 2 storeys. West wall of school is slightly stepped
and has some quoins in the centre; 5 ground floor windows of 3 lights with
rendered brick mullions and segmental brick heads; 3 windows at 1st floor,
of 5, 4 and 4 lights, all with rendered brick mullions, some similar windows
on rear wall. Present entrance through cottage door at south end, which has
lintel lettered "By the liberal Contributions of the Gentlemen of this Parish
and others in the year 1790". Interior: floor level recently lowered by
excavation; ground floor room has 5 chamfered beams, 2 with arch-bracing
to wooden corbels; much evidence of internal timber framing.

Listing NGR: SD5417921602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26643846

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]