MILTON ABBEY SCHOOL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1118566
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:: MILTON ABBEY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: MILTON ABBEY SCHOOL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1118566
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:: MILTON ABBEY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: MILTON ABBEY SCHOOL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILTON ABBEY SCHOOL

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Milton Abbas
National Grid Reference:: ST 79854 02377

Details

MILTON ABBAS ST 7902 MILTON ABBEY

12/138 Milton Abbey School 26-6-53 GV I

Country house, used as public school. Built 1771-76 for Joseph Dames, architects Sir W Chambers and J Wyatt. Replacing domestic buildings of abbey except for Hall (item 137). Mainly ashlar stone walls, slate and lead roofs, with parapets. Ashlar stacks, some designed as pinnacles. Quadrangular plan. The Hall (q.v.) forming south range. Part 2-storeyed, part 3-storeyed. In early Gothic Revival style. Entrance (north) front has projecting towers each end and central porch tower. Porch has 4-centred arch leading to courtyard, in square frame, with shields in spandrels, flanked by pilasters. Each side of this a 3-sided canted bay, the whole rising to 3 storeys. Pierced parapet with quatrefoils and moulded cornice. Moulded string courses at each floor level. On second floor, in centre, a sash with Gothic glazing. In each bay, 3 oval openings - those in centre with windows - others blank. On first floor, a 4-centred arched sash with glazing bars in centre. In each bay a 4-centred arched opening,those in centre with sashes with glazing bars - others blank. On ground floor, a 4-centred arched sash with glazing bars in centre of each bay. Between the porch and end towers, 2-storeyed ranges, with battlemented parapets. On each side, each floor has three 4-centred arched sashes with glazing bars. End towers, of 3 storeys have octagonal corner buttresses carried up as pinnacles. Pierced parapets with quatrefoils on second floor each tower has a square window flanked by a circular window each side - all with glazing bars. On ground and first floors each tower has three 4-centred arched sashes with glazing bars - the centre window larger. Label moulds to outer windows. All windows have moulded surrounds. Archway to courtyard has heavy timber doors. Gothic style plaster vault. East wall of flint and stone banding. C19 service wing at south-east corner, of flint and stone banding with slate roof. C20 wing at north-east - of no particular interest. Internally, main rooms in west range have fine original joinery and plasterwork, in classical style. Similar, simpler detail in rooms of north range. Stone cantilever stair with ornamental iron balusters - East range damaged by fire 1956 - has no original interior features. Interesting early Gothic Revival design. RCHM. Monument 4. (Dorset. Vol.III)

Listing NGR: ST7989702385

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Legacy System number:: 103554
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.