Description

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SP 1510
11/21

ALDSWORTH,
ALDSWORTH VILLAGE,
The Old School House

(Formerly listed as The Old School, ALDSWORTH VILLAGE.

Previously listed as School House)

23.1.52

GV II

Semi-detached house adjoining Brightswell Cottage. Mid C19 with later extensions at rear Coursed squared and dressed limestone, most finely dressed stone at front. Rusticated quoins. Stone slate roof to main body, concrete tile and red tile in extensions at rear. Ashlar stacks. Rectangular main body with later extensions at right angles at rear. Two-storey, 3-windowed facade lit by 2-light, ovolo-moulded, stone-mullioned wood casements with horizontal glazing bars within architraves with shallow stepped mouldings. Wooden casements lighting facade probably replaced small sash windows with glazing bars as in right gable end. Central C19 four-panel door (2 upper panels now glazed) within stone porch with shallow triangular pediment. Gable-end stacks and flat gable-end coping to main body. Possibly once functioned as an Inn during C19. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP1567309978

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26447470

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)