Building record 1118600000 - THE OLD SCHOOL (OLD POST OFFICE) MAIN STREET, MIDDLE CLAYDON

Grade II. Public room, former library, and house. Dated 1827 on plaque to right gable, altered. Pebble dash over brick, half-timbered porch, tiled roofs, 2 brick stacks each with 3 square shafts set diagonally. Picturesque Gothick. 2 storeys. N. front has 5 bays, outer bays set back, 2-storey projecting gabled porch to centre with lean-to to right. Inner bays gabled to front. Irregular windows with cast iron lattice casements to ground floor and leaded casements to first floor. 2 doors in 4-centred arched frames with similarly arched and glazed lights to upper half. Verandah to left side andrear. Built at expense of Mr. Abel Smith, son-in-law of Sir Harry Calvert of Claydon House (B1).
The School, built by Sir H Verney [previously known as Sir Harry Calvert], is close to the village and is a neat building, now covered with ivy. It includes a residence for the teachers. The average number of boys and girls in attendance is about 90 (B2).
The 'Old Post Office', the much-altered public reading room and school of 1827, designed by C R Cockerell for Sir Harry Verney (B3).
Shown as 'School (Boys)' on 1st edition 25-inch and 6-inch OS maps; 'School' on 2nd edition 6-inch OS map of 1900; 'Library' and 'Post Office' on 1920s 6-inch OS map and on 1950s National Grid 6-inch Provisional Edition OS map; and as 'Post Office' on 1980s National Grid 1:10,000 OS map (B4).