School House Studies at Sherborne School
SCHOOL HOUSE STUDIES AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110788
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- School House Studies at Sherborne School
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE STUDIES AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110788
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- School House Studies at Sherborne School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE STUDIES AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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:
- SCHOOL HOUSE STUDIES AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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 63769 16531
Details
ABBEY ROAD 1. 1625 (South East Side) School House Studies at Sherborne School ST 6316 1/6 28.11.50. I GV 2. L-shaped wing of C15 origin restored by R C Carpenter. Includes former Abbey kitchen with projecting chimney at north end of north-south wing; chimney has built into it 4 cusped panels with carvings of symbols of the Evangelists. At west end of north face in west part of large gabled bay, original doorway with 2 small niches above, flanked by small buttresses. Above it, a late medieval 4-light 2-tier window with 4-centred heads to lights; in east part of gable, a splayed bay with moulded cornice and gargoyles and windows of one or two cinquefoiled lights with labels. To east of this, and to west of chimney wing, lower windows transomed. Chimney wing projects north at east end with two window bays in west wall, which also has gable over. East face of block has doorway at left hand end and 3 window bays to north; stone-mullioned windows with gables above upper windows. 2 window bays adjoin east end of chapel with small gables over upper windows. To right hand, wider gabled bay with one 2-light window above and below and, to left hand, a single light window.
The following buildings of Sherborne School surround the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary and form a group with themselves and with the Abbey Church of St Mary.
Listing NGR: ST6373316544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103829
- 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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