Former village school, The Green

Location/Address

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Type

Building

Historic or particularly important modern buildings.

Description

Mid-nineteenth century village school built in 1860s, extended after 1879 and now a house. Former village school converted to residential use. 1862 incorporating earlier chapel (1840s); white brick with stone dressings and parapet verges. Remainder schoolmaster’s house, post-1879. Front porch to chapel with diagonal buttresses. Tudor style arch to front door. Rooms to either side under leanto roofs. Slate roof. Extended to SE for school house in white gault brick. Casement windows with small square panes under simple segmental heads. Former chapel bell probably housed in bellcote above buttress in centre of rear main gable. Significance: Part of one of the communal village buildings, with a philanthropic origin; an educational building which has an ornamental role in this part of the estate village, survives largely intact. Issues: Stone parapets may have been removed on reroofing (new brick to verges). The front setting is divided by a hedge so that the building is not seen as a whole with the extension. A local note building within the conservation area of Mentmore (B1).

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Statement of Significance

Asset type

Mid-nineteenth century village school built in 1860s, extended after 1879 and now a house.

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Date Listed

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