Library; The School House England, UK

Listed Building Description

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SHINFIELD BASINGSTOKE ROAD (west side) SU 76 NW Spencers Wood

8/24 Library and The School House

1.8.52 II

School and School house, now library and house. 1890. Grey brick with orange brick headers and band patterning, quoins and window dressings. Tiled gabled roof. Rectangular plan with 2 gables of different sizes facing road and one cross gable on right. One and a half storeys and one storey. Chimney on ridge on right of centre with moulded brick dentil head and clay pot. Rubbed brick semi-circular heads to windows, moulded brick string at upper cill level on 2 right hand gables, carved bargeboards with long dropped finials and carved bosses. 2, 3 and 4-light small pane casement windows; planked entrance door with semi-circular head in moulded brick recessed opening leading to closed porch as part of projecting gable to right of centre. An inscription above the door reads, F.W.A. 1890 on two panels with a third terracotta panel between with a swans head flanked by 2 feathers.

Listing NGR: SU7147666684