History

A large village school probably by the same architect as St Margaret''''s Church, John Gibson. Around the main entrance is an inscription in decorative lettering ''''''''Erected by Margaret Willoughby de Broke AD MDCCCLVII'''''''' with mottoes ''''''''Fear the Lord'''''''' and ''''''''Honour the Queen''''''''. The school was endowed with a fund of £1666.13.4d (£1,666.66) invested at 3%, but the endowment lapsed when the school came under LEA control, following which the fund was applied instead to church expenses.

The building ceased as a school in c1980 and is now the village hall.

Exterior

A school building in simplified Tudor style, consisting of a main N/S schoolrooms range facing E to the village street and set back behind a playground, with the head teacher''''s house to the S and the assistant teacher''''s house to the N.

The building is in axe-dressed local limestone laid in informal coursing, with better snecked masonry in the 2 houses. Roof of slates in regular courses with a tile ridge. The composition is symmetrical, with a central porch slightly advancing and rising to a coped gable with corbelled kneelers. This is the same height as the main range and there is a simple octagonal central flèche where the 2 roofs join. The main entrance has a Tudor 4-centred arch and the Bodelwyddan arms in a panel above, and slit ventilator to the roof. It is flanked by 2 3-light schoolroom windows each side with flat lintels. Around the entrance is an inscription and date, with the arms of the Williams family over.

The end-pavilions of the composition are the slightly advancing gable ends of the 2 houses; these are each 3-window 2-storey houses facing S and N. Each has a small porch in stone with a coped gable. Hornless sash windows with 8 panes, arranged as 4 upright panes per sash. Large stone chimney where the house abuts the schoolrooms range. Roof-lights at rear. The E elevation has a bay window with slate roof and a sash window of 8 panes similar to those at front above. Similar upper window at W. Slit ventilator to the roof at E and W.

Central gable at rear also, much extended.

Reasons for Listing

A fine village school building of symmetrical composition built as an integral part of a well preserved estate village.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29504047

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey