Building record 1396/8 - Old School House

House, now a school. Mid C18, with mid C19 additions

{1} House, now a school. Mid C18, with mid C19 additions. Brick with stone dressings and hipped Welsh slate roof. Chamfered plinth, sill and first floor bands, rusticated quoins, keystoned heads to the principal openings. 2 side wall and single gable coped brick stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays. South front has a projecting 3-bay centre with moulded ashlar doorcase with pulvinated frieze, 2-leaf fielded panelled doors, and overlight, flanked by single round headed sashes and beyond, to the left, a flat headed sash. Above the door, a segmental headed sash with Gibbs surround and dummy balustrade, flanked on either side by 2 C18 and C19 sashes, that to the far right blocked. Each end has, above, a central round headed blank recess, flanked by single flat headed recesses. Rear elevation, to street, has projecting centre with pilastered and corniced wooden doorcase, 4-panelled door and overlight. Regular fenestration with glazing bar sashes, 4 of them blocked. The 2-storey mid C19 addition to the south east corner is not of special architectural interest.

{3} c1770. The school was founded by William Aylworth in 1661 and his charity still operates today.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 8/55 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K1/3 p.35 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 537-8 (Book). SNN111989.

Record last edited

Mar 12 2024 4:18PM