Description

CORSLEY CORSLEY VILLAGE
ST 84 NW
(west side)
7/78 Church of England School
GV II
Primary school. 1847. Coursed rubble stone, Welsh slate roof with
coped verges with staddlestones, ashlar stack to right. T-plan,
with school teacher's house attached to right. Single-storey
school, 2-storey house. Gabled stone porch with diagonal
buttresses and planked door with ornamental hinges in pointed
chamfered doorway with inscription and foliated terminals to
hoodmould, 2-light hollow-mullioned windows to left flank square
bay with gable over. School house in cross wing to right has 2-
light mullioned casement to ground and first floors. Right return
has two 2-light mullioned casements. Later C19 wing to rear has
brick bands and 3-light mullioned windows, lean-to porch with
planked door to left, rear of main range has C20 flat roofed
extensions.
Interior retains ribbed or 4-panelled doors, C20 ceilings inserted
in formerly open-roofed schoolrooms, but stone mask corbels to roof
trusses visible below. The gift of the Marquess of Bath.
(VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)

Listing NGR: ST8279146728

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26646065

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