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FORMER CHURCH HOUSE (COMPRISES PREMISES OCCUPIED BY W WARR, TOBBACONIST PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PEDLEY AND WHITE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JOHN ISAACS)

FORMER CHURCH HOUSE (COMPRISES PREMISES OCCUPIED BY W WARR, TOBBACONIST PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PEDLEY AND WHITE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JOHN ISAACS), HALF MOON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1110736
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHURCH HOUSE (COMPRISES PREMISES OCCUPIED BY W WARR, TOBBACONIST PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PEDLEY AND WHITE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JOHN ISAACS)
Statutory Address:: FORMER CHURCH HOUSE (COMPRISES PREMISES OCCUPIED BY W WARR, TOBBACONIST PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PEDLEY AND WHITE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JOHN ISAACS), HALF MOON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1110736
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHURCH HOUSE (COMPRISES PREMISES OCCUPIED BY W WARR, TOBBACONIST PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PEDLEY AND WHITE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JOHN ISAACS)
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CHURCH HOUSE (COMPRISES PREMISES OCCUPIED BY W WARR, TOBBACONIST PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PEDLEY AND WHITE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JOHN ISAACS), HALF MOON STREET

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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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:: FORMER CHURCH HOUSE (COMPRISES PREMISES OCCUPIED BY W WARR, TOBBACONIST PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PEDLEY AND WHITE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JOHN ISAACS), HALF MOON 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 63865 16478

Details

HALF MOON STREET 1. 1625 (North-west Side) Former Church House (Comprises: Premises occupied by W Warr, Tobacconist Premises occupied by Pedley and White Premises occupied by John Isaacs) ST 6316 1/118 28.11.50. II* GV 2. Built 1530-34 by the Churchwardens of All Hallows Parish as a Church House. 2 storey stone ashlar range with a series of 4-light stone mullioned casements on the first floor, with 3 centred or semi-circular heads to lights; 2 sashes at west end. Undulating stringcourse below first floor windows. The building originally comprised a Church Hall on the first floor and a kitchen and some tenements on the ground floor. During the sixteenth century, the hall was used for church matters, and also hired for public meetings, marriages and for the performance of plays. There is a date-stone on the building, upside-down, with tile date 1570, which probably records the shoring up of the walls which took place at that time. In 1693, the lease was taken over by the Masters and Brethren of the Almshouse, and in 1701, the whole building was converted into 3 tenements; the date-stone "1701" with initials W S A which is near the east end is a reference to the tenancy of William Samson, apothecary, which began in that year. There are still 3 shops to the ground floor. W Warr's premises has, from left to right, a 2-light plate-glass window, a doorway with C18 pedimented hood, a sash window a doorway with slightly pointed head, chamfered jambs and a 6-panelled door, and, at right hand end, a 4-panes wide sash window. Pedle's and White premises have a modern shop front, but, at right hand end, have a 6-panelled door in architrave frame. The ground floor of John Isaac's premises has a projecting front with tile penthouse and half-glazed panelled door, circa 1700. Roof: at west end of stone slates, the centre and east end of plaintiles. (See J Fowler "Medieval Sherborne" pp 284-293).

Former Church House and Public Weighbridge House form a group with the Hospital of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist and with the Abbey Church of St Mary in Abbey Close. Also forms a group to the right with Saints John Building, Cheap Street.

Listing NGR: ST6386516478

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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.