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Darver National School

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Darver National School
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Detached six-bay single-storey school, built c. 1940. Rectangular-plan, flat-roofed three-bay entrance blocks to east and west, extension currently under construction to north. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick stone corbelled chimneystack, moulded cast-iron gutters on rendered corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes some with decorative hoppers. Rock-faced squared-and-snecked granite walling, red brick quoins, smooth rendered plinth. Tripartite square-headed window openings, red brick reveals, tooled granite lintels and sills, uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings, red brick reveals, tooled granite lintel, painted timber and glazed vertically-sheeted door, tooled granite threshold, concrete step. School set in own grounds, surrounded by hard and soft landscaping, bounded by dry-stone wall and wire fence, ashlar granite piers, pyramidal caps, plaques to piers "Merces Nostra Scientia Darver - 1940" , wrought-iron gates, kissing-gate to south-west; brick piers, wrought-iron gate accessed church yard to east.

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