School House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH STREET (north side) SS 7607 - 7707 11/139 Morchard Bishop - School House GV II

House, formerly schoolmasters house. Probably 1872. Snecked volcanic stone with Hamstone dressings; snecked volcanic stone stacks with brick chimney shafts; red tile roof with horizontal bands of fish-scale tiling and alternate plain and crested ridge tiles. Gothic-style L-shaped building with main range facing south and crosswing projecting forward from left (west) end. 3-room ground plan with axial stack between rooms in crosswing and end stack projecting from gable end of main block. 2-storeys. Walls are battered out slightly near the ground and a moulded Hamstone drip course just below first floor level rises over the ground floor windows as a continuous hoodmould. All the windows have depressed 2-centred arches over small shoulders, the ground foor arches higher than the first floor arches.

The single ground floor windows of main front and gable end of crosswing are square- headed 3-light timber mullion-and-upper-transom windows with arch filled with rounded fish-scale pattern tiles and relieving arch under hood mould comprising alternate blocks of Hamstone and volcanic trap. Main front has single 2-light half dormer with half-hipped roof to first floor. End of wing has another 3-light mullion-and-upper-transom window to first floor with fish-scale tile infil of low arch of volcanic stone, and a narrow arch-headed stair window with gothic-style glazing pattern. Shoulder headed door with original monopitch hood on curving struts is set in inner wall of wing. 2-windows on outer wall of wing are narrower versions of main ground floor windows and front one given a square hood. Right end stack to first floor only and rests on series of corbels, and this end has plainer arch-headed windows. End of wing is half-hipped. Original clustered chimney shafts. Interior not inspected. Attractive house built at same time and in same style as adjacent Primary School (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SS7730207557

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/2255 IOE Records taken by Michael Woodhead; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Michael Woodhead. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project