Survey Data
Reg No
11801005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
School
In Use As
Engine shed
Date
1810 - 1815
Coordinates
276223, 239712
Date Recorded
26/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1811. Extended, c.1980, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed end bay to right (north-east) and two-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north-west. Now in use as training centre. One of a pair. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Overhanging timber eaves on brackets. Iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to end bay (behind parapet) and to return. Bitumen felt. Roughcast walls. Painted. Roughcast parapet wall to end bay to north-east. Cut-stone date stone. Square-headed openings. Stone sills (concrete to return). Rendered architraves to original openings with keystones. Hood mouldings over. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1980. Original door opening to side elevation to south-west now blocked-up (concrete block). Timber door to end bay. Overlight. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
Johnstown National School (former), built for male or female pupils, is a pleasant, small-scale building of symmetrical appearance that retains some of its original features and character: regardless of subsequent additions in the late twentieth century the original portion of the school is still recognisable. The building is especially of interest when grouped with a comparable former national school to south-west and the church to centre. Combined, these buildings are of social and historic interest, having formed the civic core of the village and community. Sited directly fronting on to the road the building enhances the streetscape and continues the low roofline that typifies Johnstown Bridge.