CARETAKERS' HOUSES

10 Doe Quarry Lane, one of the gatehouses by the Main Drive, has had a history of garish paintwork. It was blue and white in the early '90s, before adopting a sickly orange colour scheme. It has since been redecorated in a slightly more conventional blue-grey colour. It appears to be unafiliated to the school and not currently a caretaker's residence (was it ever?).

School House (12 Doe Quarry Lane), lives at the opposite side of the Main Drive, at the corner of the Lower School carpark. It is the home of the Site Manager. A garage was added c.1967, and this lived in the school yard. It has seemingly since been enclosed.

White Gates, on Manor Lane, is the (traditionally somewhat ramshackled) house between the old Library and Skinner's Wood. It was bought with most of the rest of the grounds from a Mr Fisher in 1957, and was tennanted to a teacher through 1962 at least. After much vacillation, the decision was made to keep White Gates as a residence for the Superintendent Caretaker, if only to maintain access to the site from Throapham.

In 2004 the house had an extension built to the north. The picture here shows White Gates as it looked c.1994, and also shows the seemingly useless and now demolished wall that stood outside the library (the library is out of shot to the right). Never mind white gates, there's now a frightening pair of green gates outside the house as part of the terrifying perrimeter fencing that went up at the turn of the century. As the sign on the miscellaneous index shows, this propery was still home to one of the caretakers in the 1990s.