Survey Data
Reg No
11903406
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Churchtown National School
Original Use
School
In Use As
Factory
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
263848, 195709
Date Recorded
26/11/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone former national school with attic, c.1860, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre and single-bay single-storey lean-to recessed lower end bay to right (east). Now in use as pottery centre. Hipped roof with slate (gabled to porch; lean-to to recessed end bay with corrugated-iron). Clay ridge tiles. Square rooflight. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut-rubble stone walls. Rendered walls to porch. Unpainted. Rendered surround to gable forming 'pediment'. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Yellow brick surrounds. 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Timber door. Set back from road in grounds shared with former school to south. Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone former school, c.1860, with single-bay single-storey lean-to recessed flanking entrance bays. Now in use as pottery centre. Hipped roof with slate (lean-to to recessed flanking entrance bays). Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut-rubble stone walls. Cut-stone plaque. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Yellow brick surrounds. 4/4 bipartite timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set back from road in grounds shared with former school to north. Rubble stone boundary wall to site with rubble stone piers having wrought iron gates.
Appraisal
Churchtown School (former) is an attractive group of two small-scale buildings (one originally for male pupils with one separate range for female pupils) that are in good condition and which retain many original features, despite a subsequent change of use. The buildings are of considerable social and historic importance, built as the earliest educational facility in the centre of the village of Churchtown. Built of rubble stone, the buildings are dressed with yellow brick to create a quasi-polychromatic effect. Further features of note include the cut-stone plaque (now mostly illegible) and the bipartite sash windows to one range. The buildings also retains some important original materials including the fenestration and a slate roof. Prominently located on a corner site the group is a neat and attractive feature in the locality.