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school, Mungrisdale
Mungrisdale School
locality:-   Mungrisdale
civil parish:-   Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   NY36293052
1Km square:-   NY3630
10Km square:-   NY33
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BVC89.jpg (taken 3.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 57 2) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Endowed School"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FORMER SCHOOL (MUNGRISDALE POST OFFICE) / / / MUNGRISDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73552 / NY3630530522"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"School, now private house and Post Office. 1835, closed as school in 1960. Painted rendered walls, with V-jointed sandstone quoins, on chamfered plinth. Graduated hipped slate roof with stone and rendered chimney stacks. 1 1/2 storeys, 2 bays (built on slope). 2 plank doors in alternate-block sandstone surrounds under keyed friezes. Large central window with glazing bars, radial in round head. Sash windows with glazing bars in sandstone surrounds to extreme left and right. Rear has 2 similar large round-headed windows."

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