Description

Brown and Wardrop, 18663. 2-storey, 4-bay symmetrical Baronial schoolhouse now converted as residential. Squared, snecked cream sandstone, ashlar dressings. Stop-chamfered reveals, eaves course stepped as hood-moulds over dormerheaded windows to centre, finialled and saw tooth coping to gables (finial missing on porch gable to outer right, bracketted skewputts.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 gabled dormerheaded windows breaking eaves at centre (tall windows lowered during alteration to current use), square ashlar panels to gablehead; lower gabled porch to outer right, narrow window to S face, boarded door on left return. Mirror image to outer left with door now blocked as small window and blind window to S face.

Modern glazing. Grey slate roof.

Statement of Interest

Unfortunate loss of some of the character of the building with the lengthening and part blocking of the windows, however the former schoolhouse is attractively detailed and adds to the group value of the townscape.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56643669

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)