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Allithwaite School
Street:-   Church Road
civil parish:-   Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   SD38607681
1Km square:-   SD3876
10Km square:-   SD37


photograph
BUD95.jpg  New buildings.
(taken 4.3.2011)  
photograph
BUD96.jpg  School sign.
(taken 4.3.2011)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Old School House
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OLD SCHOOL HOUSE / / CAVENDISH STREET / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76980 / SD3860276803"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"School and house. Probably 1860s, by E.G. Paley. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs; south facade of house roughcast. School of one storey and 3 bays, the 1st bay recessed and lower, the house of 2 storeys and one bay. South facade has C20 extension to 1st bay; 2nd and 3rd bays have windows of 3 pointed lights and single-chamfered mullions, lateral stack with weathering and round shaft between. Gable end stack to 1st bay, bellcote to 2nd bay gable end; roof ventilator. House has 1st floor sill course. 1:2:1-light canted bay window with hipped stone roof and shouldered lintels; 1st floor has 2-light pointed window with blind tympanum. Lean-to re-entrant porch has 2-light window to return and pointed entrance with hoodmould and head stops. Left return has 3-light plate tracery window with hoodmould and headstops, and small-paned glazing. Right return has window of 2 lights to each floor, wing to rear has rainwater head. 2 cross-axial stacks. North facade has gabled wing to house, which has sashed windows with single glazing bars and flush relieving arches. Narrow bay to right has hipped roof, paired narrow sashes to ground floor and 1st floor casement. School has entrance and windows as to south but retaining original small-paned glazing; long C20 extension to end bay. Rear coped wall to yards to house and school interrupted by outbuilding with single-pitch roof."


photograph
BUD97.jpg  Old buildings.
(taken 4.3.2011)  

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
date:-   1865
School and school house.

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