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Wandesforde National School — High Street

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Wandesforde National School — High Street
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Attached five-bay double-height national school, pre-1902, originally detached on a symmetrical plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting entrance bay to centre, and two-bay single-storey return to south. Pitched slate roof (gabled to entrance bay; pitched to return) with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Random rubble stone walls (probably originally rendered) with dressed stone quoins to corners, inscribed cut-limestone plaque to gable to entrance bay with cut-stone surround having chamfered reveals, and cut-limestone plaques to gables to side elevations with cut-stone surrounds having chamfered reveals. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds (originally concealed), and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround (originally concealed), and timber boarded door. Set back from road in shared grounds with side (west) elevation fronting on to lane.

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