Milton Abbot School

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SX 447 NW MILTON ABBOT MILTON GREEN

10/263 Milton Abbot School - II

Schoolroom and adjoining schoolhouse, the schoolhouse now converted to additional classrooms. 1829, founded as an endowed school by the Duke of Bedford. Stone rubble with slate roofs with coped gables at ends and parapets, 5 stone stacks with diagonally-set shafts, one a projecting lateral stack to the front of the schoolroom. Tudor style with some Gothick details to the schoolroom. Single-storey schoolroom with left gable end porch, 2-storey schoolhouse, originally divided into accommodation for 2 families, adjoining at right and slightly set back. Picturesque asymmetrical 4-window front to schoolroom, symmetrical 4-window front to schoolhouse forming a long 7-window range overall, each block with a parapet with moulded cornice and a plinth. The schoolroom has a large projecting lateral stack on front flanked by coped set-offs on the front at the left, and a tall 4-light canted bay window on the front at the right with a stone gabled bell turret above. The left gable end porch has a parapet and a doorway at the left end. Most of the windows have been reglazed but retain their Gothick character. 2-light porch window with arched lights and 12-pane sashes. On either side of the stack is a 2-light casement with a high transom and arched lights, 9-panes above the transom. The bay window, which may be an addition, has arched timber lights with high transoms, 9-panes above the transom, 15 below. The schoolhouse has a gableted roof with 2 stacks on the high ridge and 2 to the rear, all with paired shafts. A large 4-centred archway on the front at the centre gives into a recessed porch with two 4-panel front doors on the rear wall of the arched recess. Two 1-light casements above the archway with hoodmoulds have C20 glazing, the other 4-windows, also with hoodmoulds are 2-light C20 casements, all in original embrasures. The 2 houses have rear stone porches with chamfered arched doorways, 1 blocked. 2-light C19 casements to the rear have glazing bars. Interior not inspected. Milton Abbot was one of the last endowed elementary schools in Devon, and originally for boys only. It became a Voluntary School in 1848 and a Board School in 1877. R.R. Sellman, Devon Village Schools in the Nineteenth Century (1967) (Photograph, p.48).

Listing NGR: SX4103678979

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Sources

Books and journals
Sellman, R R, Devon Village Schools in the Nineteenth Century, (1967), 48

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