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Headmasters Halls. Picture: Google Streetview. PLANNING chiefs are studying proposals to turn an office building - part of a former Victorian school - back into a house. An application relating to Headmasters Halls, a Grade II-listed building dating from the 19th century, has been submitted to New Forest District Council. Headmasters Halls occupies a prominent site at The Square, Pennington. The application says: “In 1848 the Rev William Lambert came to Pennington as vicar. He soon found the great majority of the population were illiterate and many did not even know their age. “The only educational facilities in the village were the primitive schooling provided in four private cottages.