Former Church School and Headmaster's House
FORMER CHURCH SCHOOL AND HEADMASTER'S HOUSE, PLOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056430
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church School and Headmaster's House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH SCHOOL AND HEADMASTER'S HOUSE, PLOX
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11311/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056430
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church School and Headmaster's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHURCH SCHOOL AND HEADMASTER'S HOUSE, 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:
- FORMER CHURCH SCHOOL AND HEADMASTER'S HOUSE, 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:
- ST6836034803
Details
ST6834NW
8/145
BRUTON CP
PLOX (North West side)
Former Church School and Headmaster's House
GV
II
Church School, now King's School Carpenters shop. 1856. Local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate
roof between coped gables; stone chimney stacks. Single storey school, 2 storey house. Street elevation of 2 bays; bay
1 is half gabled with bell turret braced by buttress with offsets on East; 4-centre arch doorway with fine wood gate in
Gothic style blind window panel with blank shield over doorway; bay 2 wider, gabled with 4-light pointed arch window
with C15 style tracery. East return, onto playground - site of the former National School - has 4 bays; each bay has
separate gable, with chimney breast between bays 1 and 2 and buttress between 2 and 3; bay 4 was the house and projects
slightly: 2-light curvilinear traceried windows high into gables bays 1 and 2; window to bay 3 similar but smaller with
added sidelights, low to left a 4-centre arched doorway; bay 4 has plain cusped paired lancet windows. Interiors not
seen. Building is important in street scene. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).
Listing NGR: ST6836034803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261618
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
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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