Description

SK 58 SE SHIREOAKS SHIREOAKS ROAD (North side)

1/3 Community Centre (The Old School)

G.V. II

Chapel, now community centre. 1810. For John Hewett of Shireoaks Hall; converted to school c.1864. Classical style. Plain and striated ashlar with slate roofs; ashlar dressings, stepped plinth, sill band, eaves and pedimented gables with mutules. Single side wall stack. 3 successively lower and narrower ranges, single storey, 7 bays, gable end on to street. West side has, to left, 4 unusual triple lancets with elliptical profile, 2 blocked; to right, single storey lean-to porch with 3 round headed glazing bar sashes, continuing to right as open timber arcade; above, central triple lancet flanked to left by circular window and to right by metal frame casement. South gable, to street, has 2 round headed glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds. To its right, single storey, single bay addition, ashlar with slate roof, with single round headed glazing bar sash, and in right gable, ashlar doorcase. East side has 2 small wings with coped gables and single gable stack. North gable has single round headed window with triple lancet glazing bars, and memorial tablet to 'Johanis Hewett 1811'.

Listing NGR: SK5537380889

External Links

• Wikidata Q26651642

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey