Survey Data
Reg No
13902418
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1920 - 1940
Coordinates
303088, 277250
Date Recorded
19/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey timber former school, built c. 1930, now disused. Rectangular-plan, porches to north, lean-to to south. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, timber bargeboards to north and south gables, suppressed-hipped roof to entrance porches to north, lean-to roof to covered area to south-east. Vertically sheeted timber walling. Square-headed window openings, timber sills, tripartite four-centred timber arched windows now boarded up. Porch to north, open at north-east and north-west corners, supported on square-profile columns on cast-iron bases, square-headed door openings, painted timber doors with six flat panels, concrete entrance platforms. School is situated off roadway, overgrown site.
Appraisal
Melifont School is situated close to the gate lodge of Townley House and in the vicinity of the church. Its simple construction of timber walling and corrugated-iron roof is unusual and the paired entrances to north elevation are reminiscent of a bygone age when boys and girls entered the school through separate entrances. Though simple in its overall design, the decoration applied to the timber bargeboards and porched entranceways is worthy of note as are the tripartite windows.