Description

SO 74 NW
MATHON RURAL CP

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The Old School House

6.7.76

GV II

School and schoolhouse, now dwelling, dated 1861. Brick, stone dressings,
tiled roof, half-hipped to schoolhouse, with shingled flêche roughly at
intersection. 'L' plan, 2 bays and cross-wing. Former school: 2 bays,
3 light mullioned windows now reduced for floor insertion and upper parts
filled with boarding, prominent central chimney with weathered sides and
quatrefoiled date-stone, catslide entrance to right in angle with school-
house; 2 inserted C20 Velux roof-lights flanking chimney, Decorated style
west window. Former schoolhouse: 2 storeys, gable-end has one range of
windows, 2-light trefoil-headed on first floor and 3-light on ground floor.
Return tp east domestic with central entrance. This building was included
before the conversion.

Listing NGR: SO7340545850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26359361

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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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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)