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Sopwell National School

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Sopwell National School
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Detached three-bay single-storey school with attic, built 1826, with façade comprising gabled projections flanking castellated cut limestone arcade of four-centred arches. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with render chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and ornamental timber bargeboards with cast-iron finials to projecting gables. Roughcast render walls with quatrefoil motif to the gables and stone shield with name to arcade. Square-headed openings with mullioned-and-transomed latticed cast-iron windows having limestone sills. Timber battened doors set in square-headed openings. Limestone boundary wall to garden to front of building, with cast-iron letter box with royal insignia of Edward VII.

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