Building record 2881/8/1 - Easton on the Hill Village Hall

Documentary evidence suggests that a school was built on this site in 1670. However, in 1867 a national school was constructed of limestone and ashlar with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof. The building is T shaped in plan with a three window range of two and three light stone mullioned windows and ashlar gables and parapets. A small square tower is attached to the left that retains an ashlar cupola with a bell and clock face. The school is now used as the village hall. (Formerly known as Garford School).

{1} School, now village hall. C.1867. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate roof. T-shape plan. Single storey. Elevation abutting New Road is a 3-window range of 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows. Ashlar quoins and gable parapets. Conical ventilator at ridge. Elevation to left has gable and with large 3-light stone mullion window with plate tracery, cusped-head lights and roundels. Small square tower attached, to left, has square ashlar cupola, with spirelet, clock face on tower with chiming bell in cupola. Partially legible inscribed panel in tower records endowment and building of present school. Elevation to right has gable with similar 3-light window with plate tracery. Lean-to porch to right. Interior retains C19 roof structure. The school was originally endowed by Richard Garford in 1670 and rebuilt on the present site in 1867, to include a National School for girls, as well as boys, at a cost of £1,200.

{4} Undated photo;

{1, 5} Documentary evidence suggests that a school was built on this site in 1670. However, in c1867 a national school was constructed here of limestone and ashlar with a Collyweston Slate roof. The building is T shaped in plan with a three window range of two and three light stone mullioned windows and ashlar gables and parapets. A small square tower is attached to the left that retains an ashlar cupola with a bell and clock face. The school is now used as the village hall. The building is listed at Grade II.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/74 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Whellan, 1874, History, Topography & Directory of Northamptonshire, p.689 (unchecked) (Book). SNN1002.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Easton On The Hill (Photographs). SNN111661.

<5> Historic England, Building File (Uncertain). SNN71057.

<6> Historic England, Undated, EASTON ON THE HILL VILLAGE HALL, EASTON ON THE HILL, BF084117 (Archive). SNN114020.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2022 11:48AM