Merriott First School
MERRIOTT FIRST SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056111
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Merriott First School
- Statutory Address:
- MERRIOTT FIRST SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056111
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Merriott First School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRIOTT FIRST SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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:
- MERRIOTT FIRST SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44176 12784
Details
ST4412 MERRIOTT CP CHURCH STREET (South side)
9/121 Merriott First School
GV II
School. 1876, extended c1900. Ham stone ashlar; plain clay tiled roofs with bands of scallop tiles, between coped gables having gabletted finials, the 1875 portion having wrought-iron finials in addition. Single-storey, double roof plan with projections on east side, High Victorian gothic style. North, roadside, elevation of 3 bays, of which bay 1 is the flank of a projection, and bays 2 and 3 are gabled. 3-light plain mullioned window to bay 1. Bay 2 has a 5-light pointed-arched unmoulded sub-arcuated plate traceried window under pointed-arched label, with a 2-aperture vent in gable. Bay 3 has a segmental-arched double-transomed 3-light window with string over. East elevation also 3 bays. Plain 3-light window bay 1. Bay 2 in form of projecting porch under a catslide roof, with a bell turret on gable. Bay 3, a full gable, has a 3-light plate-traceried window without label. Small extension, set lower, on south side. Interior not seen. Erected as an infants Board school, after the formation of a School Beard in 1875, this school was merged with the Former Sunday School opposite (qv) to form the Merriott First School in 1972. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p 1).
Listing NGR: ST4417612784
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 61
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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