Building record 689/2 - The Old Grammar School, Forest Street

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 403005 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly school, now house: founded 1638 by William Barker of Sandiway, converted to house c1920. Dressed tooled red sandstone blocks, Welsh slate roof, corner brick chimney. Rectangular one-room plan. Two-storey, three-bay front. Tall plinth. Left end bay has a rectangular doorcase with a heavy lintel above which has a flat moulded hood. Other bays have three-light rebated chamfered stone mullioned windows. Right gable end has a tiebeam and collar truss with studs between. Rear has intact, though restored, fenestration. Interior: splayed reveals to the windows, no original features though present corner fireplace may suggest original position.

The school may have acted as the manor courthouse, into the eighteenth century, and was extensively damaged during the Civil War.