The School House, With Front Boundary Railings
- Date:
- 19 Oct 1999
- Location:
- The School House, With Front Boundary Railings, The Green, Long Sutton, South Somerset, Somerset, TA10 9HT
- Reference:
- IOE01/00038/06
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
LONG SUTTON CP THE GREEN (West side) ST4625 12/157 The School House, with front boundary railings - GV II
Former school, now house. 1840, reshaped 1871. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Single storey with attic, 2 bays. Below, 3-light chamfered mullioned windows under square labels; above, pairs of 2-light mullioned windows set under segmental arched heads in slightly projecting gabled dormers, each on 3 corbel blocks, with slit gable vents over: between bays a part-glazed door in plain opening having thin stone lintol. C20 extension to rear. Interior not seen. 3 metres (average) east of house the boundary railings, about 1 metre high, cast iron with spear-head points, and pair of simple matching gates, which add to setting of house. Erected as the village schoolroom in 1840, on the site of a former vicarage, it became the master's house in 1871 when the present school (q.v) was erected opposite. (VCH vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4687425362
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1876 IOE Records taken by Graham Slocombe; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Graham Slocombe. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Slocombe, Graham
Rights Holder: Slocombe, Graham
Brick, Cast Iron, Ham Hill Stone, Lias, Welsh Slate, Victorian School, Education, Teachers House, Domestic, House, Dwelling
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