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The Old School House — Chapel Hill

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The Old School House — Chapel Hill
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Detached six-bay two-story cruciform-plan former school, built in 1867. Comprising gable-fronted breakfront to front (east) and rear (west) elevations, recent uPVC conservatory and timber portico to south elevation. Hipped slate roof having pitched slate roofs to breakfronts and red brick chimneystacks. Snecked limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins, platband and plinth course. Inscribed limestone date stone to front elevation. Square-headed openings having limestone sills, red brick voussoirs and timber casement windows. Square-headed opening to south elevation with red brick voussoirs and half-glazed timber panelled door. Limestone step to entrance. Pair of square-profile snecked limestone piers to east having limestone caps, single-leaf cast-iron gate and rubble limestone boundary walls. Pair of square-profile rubble limestone piers to north-east with double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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