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Ashford Girls' National School

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Ashford Girls' National School
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Detached T-plan four-bay double-height former girls' national school, built in 1931, having gable-fronted two-bay projecting bay to front (north-east) and single-bay porch to rear (south-west). Now in use as a Montessori school. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and recent cast-iron styled aluminium rainwater goods. Lean-to corrugated-iron roof to rear porch. Rough-cast rendered walls with tooled limestone date plaque to front elevation of projecting bay. Ocular ventilation openings at plinth height. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and raised render surrounds throughout, having replacement six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with raised render surround to side (south-east) elevation of central gable-fronted projecting bay, having tooled limestone step and timber battened door. Later five-bay single-storey toilet block to south-west of school, having roughcast rendered wall linking toilet block to school. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to front having chamfered render coping, square-profile piers with chamfered render capping and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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