Waverton school and schoolmaster's house
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| Waverton school and schoolmaster's house | |
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 Photograph of the school and house taken about 1880 | |
| Location | Waverton, Cheshire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°09′54″N 2°48′25″W / 53.1649°N 2.8069°W |
| Built | 1877 |
| Built for | 1st Duke of Westminster |
| Architect | John Douglas |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Designated | 30 January 1985 |
| Reference no. | 1330262 |
  Location in Cheshire | |
Waverton school and schoolmaster's house are in the village of Waverton, Cheshire, England. The combined structure is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1]
The school and the house were built in 1877 for the 1st Duke of Westminster and designed by the Chester architect John Douglas.[1] The schoolmaster's house is still in use as a house, while the school is now a day nursery and after school club.[citation needed]
Architecture
School
This is constructed in red ashlar sandstone with a red tile roof. It is in one storey and its south front has five bays. Each of the central three bays has four-light mullioned and transomed window under a stone-coped gable with a finial. In the left bay is an arched doorway and in the right bay is a four-light mullioned window. The roof is hipped and contains three gabled ventilators. At the left end of the roof is a bellcote.[1]
House
The house is connected to the school by a single-storey passage. It has two storeys; the lower storey is constructed in orange brick on a stone plinth, and the upper storey is timber-framed. The roof is in red tiles and there are two chimneys. The main (west) front of the house has three bays. The doorway is in the central bay; over this is an oriel window supported by wooden columns under a gable. To the left of the door is a five-light mullioned window. A pair of small outbuildings with hipped roofs are attached to the left side of the house. The south aspect of the house has a canted window in the lower storey under a jettied timber-framed upper storey supported on wooden brackets. The upper storey contains a four-light casement window with a date inscribed in the beam above it.[1]
