Description

EGLINGHAM SOUTH CHARLTON
NU 12 SE
3/185 The Old Schoolhouse
II

Bastle house, C16 or early C17, remodelled c.1840 as schoolmaster's house.
Large rubble with roughly-cut dressings; cut stone dressings to C19 features.
Welsh slate roof with end stacks rebuilt in brick on old bases.

2 storeys, 2 bays. Central doorway inside C20 porch,with narrow window above,
flanked by larger windows with slightly-projecting sills, the upper in gabled
half dormers; all C19 openings in raised chamfered surrounds. Remains of
bastle 1st-floor door to left of centre. Coped gables and dormers, on moulded
kneelers. Right return shows central blocked byre door with irregular-block
surround under relieving arch; traces of blocked 1st floor loop above.

Interior: walls 0.9 metre thick, thinned back at 1st floor level. Porch,
extensions to rear and altered schoolroom to west, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU1638720276

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26651304

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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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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)