Hanford School
HANFORD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110146
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Hanford School
- Statutory Address:
- HANFORD SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110146
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hanford School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANFORD SCHOOL
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:
- HANFORD SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hanford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8455511132
Details
ST 8805 HANFORD
1/46
14.10.60
Hanford School
(formerly listed as
Hanford House)
GV
II*
The address shall be amended to read
ST 81 SW HANFORD
1/46
4.10.60
Hanford School
(formerly listed as
Hanford House)
GV II*
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HANFORD
ST 81 SW
14-10-60
1/46
Hanford School (formerly listed
as Hanford House)
GV II*
Country House, now school, dated 1623 possibly commenced 1604. For Sir Robert
Seymer. Ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone-slate roofs with
symmetrically disposed square stone stacks. Courtyard plan. Courtyard was
roofed in 1873. Entrance facade symmetrical. 2 storeys with basements and
attics, 5 bays. Moulded string courses separate floors. Ground and first
floors have stone mullioned and transomed windows of 4 lights to the outer bays,
3 lights to the second bays and 2 lights to the central bay. 3 gabled dormers
each containing a 4-light stone mullioned window with a returned label. 2 storey,
pedimented centrepiece with Doric pilasters to the ground floor and Ionic pilasters
above, Central round-headed archway with rusticated surround. East front has
2-storey mullioned and transomed canted bays. Other facades have stone mullioned
and mullioned and transomed windows less symmetrically arranged.
Internally the entrance passage is lined with shell-headed niches. The internal
courtyard has a 2 storeyed porch with round headed arch flanked by Ionic columns
bearing an entablature, Over is an achievement of arms flanked by scrolled check
pieces and surmounted by a lion. Over is a mullioned and transomed 5-light
window. Similar windows to other walls of court. Courtyard has original studded
plank door and is lined with C19 panelling. East range has original dog-leg
staircase with reeded, square newels, some having vase finials and moulded heavy
handrail intersecting the string. C18 hall staircase with cut strings, moulded
and twisted balusters and moulded handrail. Various C17 and C18 chimneypieces,
notably that of the C17 in a first floor room with grotesque caryatids, aedicules
and figures of solidiers in high relief. 2 flint floor rooms have C17 geometric,
ribbed plaster ceilings with decorative arabesques etc. Various C17 and C18
doors and panelling. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p,l02-l04, no.2 Newman, J and
Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.223-225.)
Listing NGR: ST8455511132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 102-104
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 223-225
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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