School and Almshouses
SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, DAUNTSEY GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022488
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- School and Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, DAUNTSEY GREEN
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- Date:
- 2005-09-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/14860/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022488
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- School and Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, DAUNTSEY GREEN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSES, DAUNTSEY GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dauntsey
- National Grid Reference:
- ST9951481976
Details
ST 98 SE
3/191
DAUNTSEY
DAUNTSEY GREEN
School and almshouses
II
Village school and attached almshouses, 1865, red brick with
ashlar dressings, and banded plain tile roofs. Rubble plinths. L-
plan single storey school to left with left cross wing and three-
window main range. Cross wing has plate-traceried pointed 2-light
window. Chimney in angle to main range, which has 3-light
shouldered-head mullion windows. Buttress to left of centre
window, truncated outside stack to right. East end Gothic timber
bellcote with leaded square spirelet. A low link connects to near-
symmetrical domestic range, apparently almshouses with school-
teacher's house adjoining school. Single storey centre with
projecting gabled 2-storey cross wing each end. Of the original
ornamental moulded brick chimneys one group of four shafts remains
on the ridge of left cross wing and two two-shaft stacks on ridge
of centre. Right cross wing has north end and east side stacks with
rebuilt shafts. Each cross wing has ground floor 3-light and first
floor 2-light stone mullion window with hoodmoulds and relieving
arches. Left cross wing has east gable rising through roof of
centre range, the main asymmetrical element. Centre roof is swept
low over 10-bay verandah on timber posts. To left, door and 2-
light mullion window, part of 2-storey left cross wing, then four
almshouses with door and window each in arrangement DWWDDWWD, the
windows C20 metal replacing 2-light mullions. Right cross wing has
door in side wall.
Listing NGR: ST9951481976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316317
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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