Description

LEIGH C.P. CLAYHILL ROAD
TQ 24NW
The Green
6/138 Scholars
GV II

Former Village School, now house. c1860. Red brick with stone angle quoins and
tiled roofs including alternate bands of diamond-point and fishscale pattern
tiling. Stone quoins to stacks and wooden lantern on roof ridge to right under
pyramidal cap. Long rectangular plan on corner site with cross wings to left and
larger cross wing to right. Two storeys to left end, single storey to right with
right hand cross wing being the former school hall. Stacks to left end, left side
of left cross wing, rear right of centre and to rear. Pierced wavy-edged barge-
hoards to gables on left and left hand return front, ridge cresting on roofs to
right. Mullioned and transomed windows to left, one on first floor, one below;
that to front in pentice roofed square-bay. Large stone dressed "cross" windows
to ends of hall range with mullions of half-round section, plate glass windows to
right. Windows on right hand return front have hexagonal and diamond-pattern
glazing in upper lights over plain lower lights. Panelled door to right under
lantern; old main door to left in recessed range between cross wings with half-
open balustraded corridor in front. New main entrance now to rear. The school
forms an important part of the group around the Village Green.

Listing NGR: TQ2238946846

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26658578

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings