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Abbey Hall — Upper Main Street

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Abbey Hall — Upper Main Street
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Detached eight-bay double-height national school, built 1861, on a T-shaped plan centred on two-bay double-height pedimented breakfront; single-bay (two-bay deep) double-height lower central return (east). In alternative use, 2004. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), ridge tiles, rendered "wallhead" chimney stack (east) having stringcourse below capping supporting yellow terracotta pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls with cut-granite quoins to corners including cut-granite quoins to corners (breakfront) supporting bellcote-topped monolithic pediment; cement rendered surface finish (east). Shallow camber-headed window openings in shallow camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with timber casement windows now boarded up. Set back from street on an elevated site with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having concrete chamfered coping.

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