Old House, King's School
OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, PLOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056391
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Old House, King's School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, PLOX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056391
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Old House, King's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, PLOX
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:
- OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, PLOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6833334725
Details
ST6834NW
8/149
BRUTON CP
PLOX (North West side)
Old House, King's School
24.3.61
GV II
Free School building. C16 origins. Local stone rubble, parts rendered, with Doulting stone dressings; stone slate roof
with plain gables; rebuilt brick chimney stack to South West end. "T"-plan, 2 storeys, with 5-bay front elevation.
Plinth; hollow chamfer mullioned windows with 4-centre arched heads, some with incised spandrils; first floor windows
of 2, 2, 1, 3 and 3-lights, and below 4-light to bays 1 and 2, 2-light to bay 4 and an off-centre 4-light to bay 5 the
windows all without hoods and varying in detail at both levels; entrance doorway to bay 3 with part-glazed door set in
3-centre arch framed by flat Doric pilasters and crowned with full entrablature and pediment. Plain stone and stone
slated extension with part hipped roof to South West; to North East a C19 extension with hipped Welsh slate roof of 2
bays, with small 2-light openings filled with flamboyant tracery under square labels to 2 levels, the upper having been
adapted to form 4-light mullioned and transomed windows. To rear sundry C19 details including turret porch; a gable
bell turret and a collection of matching buildings. The late C20 buildings attached on North West side not included in
listing. The interior not seen, but the rooms to right and left of the entrance passage are thought to be original, and
the heavy undecorated Hall screen survives; in the North East portion of 1834 is incorporated an Elizabethan timber
lobby; the roof of the main building has unblackened trusses with tenoned purlins and curved windbraces. (Couzens P,
Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1975).
Listing NGR: ST6833334725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261622
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1975)
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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