Downton Church of England (Controlled) Primary School
DOWNTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND (CONTROLLED) PRIMARY SCHOOL, GRAVEL CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023886
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Downton Church of England (Controlled) Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- DOWNTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND (CONTROLLED) PRIMARY SCHOOL, GRAVEL CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023886
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Downton Church of England (Controlled) Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWNTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND (CONTROLLED) PRIMARY SCHOOL, GRAVEL CLOSE
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:
- DOWNTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND (CONTROLLED) PRIMARY SCHOOL, GRAVEL CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Downton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU1742721576
Details
SU 1721
5/71
DOWNTON
GRAVEL CLOSE
(west side)
Downton C of E (Controlled) Primary School
II
Board school, now primary school. 1895. Flemish bond brick with
limestone dressings, tiled roof, brick stacks. E-plan. Single
storey, ten windows. Projecting gable to left of centre has
elliptical-arched doorway with 2-light mullioned window over, to
left is 3-light mullioned and transomed window in Tudor-arched
opening with traceried panel over in gable, with date 1895. To
left and right are groups of sashes with pivot windows; the centre
of each group has hipped gablet over. To right is projecting gable
with groups of sashes with stone mullions and transoms. Stepped
eaves course, saddleback coping to gables. Lead and cast-iron
cylindrical vents to ridge of roof have conical cappings, brick
stacks have good decorated pots. Octagonal limestone belfry over
front door has traceried and chamfered openings and ogee roof with
weathervane. Left and right returns have similar groups of
sashes, with stone mullions and transoms to left return. To rear
are three gabled wings with groups of tall sashes and pivot-
windows, all with cambered flat arches and keystones, loop vents
over. Covered yards between the wings have corrugated-iron arched
roofs on cast-iron piers.
Interior has planked doors and glazed sliding partitions between
larger rooms. Partly exposed roof timbers on stone corbels. A
good, unaltered example of a Board School, founded after the
Elementary Education Act of 1870.
Listing NGR: SU1742721576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319630
- 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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