Brymore School (Main Block)
BRYMORE SCHOOL (MAIN BLOCK), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059065
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Brymore School (Main Block)
- Statutory Address:
- BRYMORE SCHOOL (MAIN BLOCK), HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-05-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/13824/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059065
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Brymore School (Main Block)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRYMORE SCHOOL (MAIN BLOCK), HIGH 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:
- BRYMORE SCHOOL (MAIN BLOCK), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cannington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24582 39416
Details
ST23NW CANNINGTON CP HIGH STREET (North side)
7/25 Brymore School (Main Block) (formerly listed as Brymore House [now an Agricultural School] under General)
29.3.63
GV II
Country house, now an agricultural school. Of 3 distinct builds; to left a late C18 wing, to centre a C15 porch, to right a lid/late C19 wing. Cl8 wing roughcast, plain band at first floor level, moulded cornice, parapet, hipped slate roof, brick stacks; 3 storeys, 5 bays, 12-pane sash windows, except 6-pane sash windows to second floor, slightly cambered heads. Low 2-storey rubble porch to centre, 2-stage angle buttresses, embattied parapet with heraldic shields; restored moulded pointed arch door opening with a label, paired ribbed and studded doors; single 2-light stone mullioned and transomed window set above, cinquefoiled head and sub-arches, leaded lights, label. Three storey, 3 bay wing to right, rubble brick dressings, moulded cornice and parapet; 12-pane sash windows except 6-pane sash windows to second floor; embattled angular bay to ground floor with a 4-light stone mullioned window, each light with a cusped head. Most important interior features to the C18 wing including some fine cornices; two fireplaces to ground floor, one in a marble surround with the mantleshelf supported on thin detached Tuscan columns; one in a moulded wooden surround with a frieze of figures; lofty open-well staircase with cast-iron balusters, moulded handrail, stone treads, John Pym, the politician, was born here in 1582.
Listing NGR: ST2458239416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268873
- 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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