THE HEADMASTER'S TOWER, ABOUT 45 METRES NORTH WEST OF OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, AND ADJACENT WALLING TO SOUTH AND EAST

THE HEADMASTER'S TOWER, ABOUT 45 METRES NORTH WEST OF OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, AND ADJACENT WALLING TO SOUTH AND EAST, PLOX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056392
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE HEADMASTER'S TOWER, ABOUT 45 METRES NORTH WEST OF OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, AND ADJACENT WALLING TO SOUTH AND EAST
Statutory Address:: THE HEADMASTER'S TOWER, ABOUT 45 METRES NORTH WEST OF OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, AND ADJACENT WALLING TO SOUTH AND EAST, PLOX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056392
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE HEADMASTER'S TOWER, ABOUT 45 METRES NORTH WEST OF OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, AND ADJACENT WALLING TO SOUTH AND EAST
Statutory Address 1:: THE HEADMASTER'S TOWER, ABOUT 45 METRES NORTH WEST OF OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, AND ADJACENT WALLING TO SOUTH AND EAST, PLOX

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Statutory Address:: THE HEADMASTER'S TOWER, ABOUT 45 METRES NORTH WEST OF OLD HOUSE, KING'S SCHOOL, AND ADJACENT WALLING TO SOUTH AND EAST, PLOX

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bruton
National Grid Reference:: ST6827334764

Details

ST6834NW 8/150

BRUTON CP PLOX (North West side)

The Headmaster's Tower, about 45 metres North West of Old House, King's School, and adjacent walling to South and East

GV II

Gazebo/folly tower. Early C19. Red brick, probably originally rendered, with Doulting stone dressings; lead flat roofs. In Gothic style, octagonal plan with circular stair turret on West side. 2 storeys. 4-centred arched doorways on South West and East faces; 2-light trefoil headed unglazed windows to South face and upper East face; plinth, string course and battlemented parapets. Wing walls of random rubble, average height 3 metres, extending some 23 metres Southwards and 27 metres Eastwards, the latter terminating in high square ashlar pier (the building on the North East face of this latter not included in the listing). Tower erected by Headmaster Abrahall (seved from l826-64) possibly in 1834, when he extended the Old House (qv). The walls represent earlier boundaries to the school. The tower, appropriately, ivy covered (September 1983). (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).

Listing NGR: ST6827334764

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Legacy System number:: 261623
Legacy System:: LBS

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Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.