The Old Schoolhouse (Snitter)
Snitter Old Schoolhouse, bastle. (1)
The Old Schoolhouse, Snitter, grade II listed building. The right part was originally a bastle. 16th and early 19th century. Bastle masonry on ground floor of right section, largely rebuilt in 18th or early 19th century. (2)
The house incorporates a bastle, heightened and extended to the west in the 19th century. The north wall shows typical bastle masonry and the north west quoins of the original building, as well as a blocked square-headed doorway that may be contemporary. Interior not seen. (3)
North end is a bastle of c.1600 with, internally, the lower part of a spiral stair. (4)
House, the right part originally a bastle house. Later a school and school-master's house. C16 and early C19. Random rubble, especially large in older parts, and tooled-and-margined ashlar dressings.
2 storeys. 2 sections. Left 3 bays early C19. C20 conservatory and sash windows.
Right section has bastle masonry on ground floor, largely rebuilt C18 or early C19 above. On ground floor C20 glazed door and 3 renewed 16-pane sashes. On 1st floor two 16-pane sashes. Gabled roof with left end stack and 2 ridge stacks.
To rear a blocked ground-floor doorway with alternating-block surround. Immediately above, the very worn doorstep of the 1st-floor doorway (cf. Leam Bastle, Corsenside Parish, Tynedale Dist.) Interior: Walls c.42 inches thick on ground floor. The lower part of a finely-cut stone newel stair remains. Listed Grade II. (5a,b)
The Old Schoolhouse, Snitter, grade II listed building. The right part was originally a bastle. 16th and early 19th century. Bastle masonry on ground floor of right section, largely rebuilt in 18th or early 19th century. (2)
The house incorporates a bastle, heightened and extended to the west in the 19th century. The north wall shows typical bastle masonry and the north west quoins of the original building, as well as a blocked square-headed doorway that may be contemporary. Interior not seen. (3)
North end is a bastle of c.1600 with, internally, the lower part of a spiral stair. (4)
House, the right part originally a bastle house. Later a school and school-master's house. C16 and early C19. Random rubble, especially large in older parts, and tooled-and-margined ashlar dressings.
2 storeys. 2 sections. Left 3 bays early C19. C20 conservatory and sash windows.
Right section has bastle masonry on ground floor, largely rebuilt C18 or early C19 above. On ground floor C20 glazed door and 3 renewed 16-pane sashes. On 1st floor two 16-pane sashes. Gabled roof with left end stack and 2 ridge stacks.
To rear a blocked ground-floor doorway with alternating-block surround. Immediately above, the very worn doorstep of the 1st-floor doorway (cf. Leam Bastle, Corsenside Parish, Tynedale Dist.) Interior: Walls c.42 inches thick on ground floor. The lower part of a finely-cut stone newel stair remains. Listed Grade II. (5a,b)
N2875
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
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