Site:

Feckenham First School, Swansbrook Lane, Feckenham

Grid Reference:    

SP 0133 6201

Description:

School 1857-9 by Henry Day with later alterations and additions Brick in English bond with stone dressings and tiled roofs with parapets at main gable ends. Large brick chimneys, with group at centre of main ridge. Part two storeys and attic, part single storey.

Unusual symmetrical composition with main range of four gabled bays, the central pair form the teachers� house with separate schoolrooms for boys and girls at each side and further classrooms to the rear. Windows have stone surrounds and ogee heads and are of mainly three stepped or paired lights. Loopholes in apex of central gables; trefoils in apex of outer gables. Single-storey entrance addition runs across front. Also cross-gabled porches at each end.

Significance:

Victorian school of attractive and unusual design that retains much of its original character and integrity.

History:

This building........