School Room to South of Congregational Chapel

SCHOOL ROOM TO SOUTH OF CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LONG STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110709
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:
School Room to South of Congregational Chapel
Statutory Address:
SCHOOL ROOM TO SOUTH OF CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LONG STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110709
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:
School Room to South of Congregational Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
SCHOOL ROOM TO SOUTH OF CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LONG 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SCHOOL ROOM TO SOUTH OF CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LONG STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sherborne
National Grid Reference:
ST 64022 16589

Details

LONG STREET 1. 1625 (North-West Side) School Room to south of Congregational Chapel ST 6416 2/412 II GV 2. 1851 circa (site bought 1851). Rectangular block of one storey and basement. Tile gabled roof. Stone walls. Gothic detail. In west front from north to south, a gable with finial at north end has two 2-centred headed windows below and one window above. To south again a gabled porch with two-centred headed entrance; buttresses. To south of porch, upper floor has 5 rectangular windows of 2-lights with pierced quatrefoils or diamonds over; dripmoulds. Lower floor or basement has plain 2-light rectangular windows. Branch spirelet on roof. In front to Long Street, a tall ornate Gothic window of 4 cusped lights and flowing tracery rises up with gable. To right hand of it, a plain two-centred headed doorway accessible from another doorway in a high wall behind an external stair which rises diagonally across the front of the building to a porch on the upper level at left hand end. Small gate at entrance to stair has uprights with fleur-de-lys finials.

Premises occupied by Mr E J T Rogers, Congregational Chapel, Dwarf wall, railings and gates to Congregational Chapel, School room to south of Congregational Chapel, Cromwell, Belmont, Wistaria House and Dwarf walls and railings and Thorn Bank form a group.

Listing NGR: ST6402216589

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
104027
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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