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Thomastown National School — Chapel Lane

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Thomastown National School — Chapel Lane
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Detached four-bay double-height national school, dated 1910, on a U-shaped plan comprising four-bay double-height main block with single-bay (three-bay deep) double-height gabled projecting lower end bays flanking two-bay single-storey recessed infill entrance block. Pitched slate roof (gabled to end bays; hipped to entrance block) with terracotta ridge tiles having finials to apexes, Running bond chimney stacks (possibly grey brick or cut-limestone) having cornices, copper-clad cylindrical vent to apex to main ridge on a chamfered base, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging exposed timber eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-limestone date stones/plaques, and rendered course to gable to side elevations supporting painted roughcast walls. Camber-headed window openings (most grouped in three-part arrangement) with painted concrete sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows with some having casement overlights. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone coping, wrought iron railings over, rock-faced limestone ashlar piers having cut-limestone chamfered coping, and wrought iron gate.(ii) Detached twelve-bay single-storey flat-roofed outbuilding, post-1910, to east with series of twelve square-headed openings forming open arcade. Flat concrete roof with no rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Series of twelve square-headed openings forming open arcade on painted cylindrical piers.

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