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Easton on the Hill Village Hall, Easton on the Hill

Description: Easton on the Hill Village Hall

Grade: II
Date Listed: 12 October 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 421696

OS Grid Reference: TF0128304249
OS Grid Coordinates: 501283, 304249
Latitude/Longitude: 52.6266, -0.5051

Location: 2 New Road, Easton on the Hill, Northamptonshire PE9 3LX

Locality: Easton on the Hill
Local Authority: East Northamptonshire District Council
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Postcode: PE9 3LX

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Listing Text

EASTON ON THE HILL NEW ROAD
TF0104 (East side)
11/74 East on on the Hill Village
Hall
GV II
School, now village hall. c.1867. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar
dressings and Collyweston slate roof. T-shape plan. Single storey. Elevation
abutting New Road is a 3-window range of 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows.
Ashlar quoins and gable parapets. Conical ventilator at ridge. Elevation to left
has gable and with large 3-light stone mullion window with plate tracery,
cusped-head lights and roundels. Small square tower attached, to left, has
square ashlar cupola, with spirelet, clock face on tower with chiming bell in
cupola. Partially legible inscribed panel in tower records endowment and
building of present school. Elevation to right has gable with similar 3-light
window with plate tracery. Lean-to porch to right. Interior retains C19 roof
structure. The school was originally endowed by Richard Garford in 1670 and
rebuilt on the present site in 1867, to include a National School for girls, as
well as boys, at a cost of £1,200.
(Whellan, F. and co.: Directory of Northamptonshire, 1874, p689)


Listing NGR: TF0128304249

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.




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