Building record MLI89937 - Former School and Schoolmaster's House, Walcot near Folkingham

Summary

Former school and schoolmaster's house on Church Lane, Walcot near Folkingham.

Type and Period (3)

  • (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1878 AD to 1971 AD)
  • (Late 20th Century to 21st Century - 1972 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1878 AD to 1971 AD)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

Former school, Church Lane, Walcot near Folkingham. Depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. {1} The school appears on a recent aerial photogrpah. {2} Pickworth School Board was formed in 1877, and the school and schoolmaster's house were erected the next year at a cost of £950. The school was closed in 1971, with pupils transferred to Folkingham School. In May 1972 the school and schoolmaster's house were sold together for £7500. They have since been sold separately and are still separate properties. The school building was a cross-wing plan one and a half/two storey red brick building in English Bond, under a pitched gabled slate roof. Dogtooth dentil course of yellow brick at eaves height and below the windows. The western gable holds a datestone inscribed '1878'. The schoolroom originally occupied the range parallel to the road, and the two-storey cross-wing was in use as the schoolmaster's house. An undated photograph of the building from before the conversion to two properties shows three ridge stacks for the schoolroom and a ridge stack and lateral stack for the master's house, all in red brick. A new wing was since added to the east of the original building, in sympathetic style, presumably when the conversion into two properties took place. {3}{4}

Sources/Archives (4)

  •  Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-06. 25 Inch County Series Map - Second Edition. 1:2500. TF03SE.
  •  Aerial Photograph: 1946-98. RCHME. TF 0534/2 2596-33.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Pickworth Local History Group. 2009. Pickworth: A South Lincolnshire Village. pp.85-94.
  •  Website: Google. 2006->. Google Maps and Street View. www.google.co.uk/maps. Accessed 24/08/2023.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred TF 05258 34388 (26m by 15m) Surveyed
Civil Parish WALCOT NEAR FOLKINGHAM, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Aug 24 2023 10:04AM

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