Puddletown Primary School
38, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119073
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Puddletown Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- 38, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07224/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119073
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Puddletown Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PUDDLETOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL, HIGH 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.
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:
- 38, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PUDDLETOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Athelhampton and Puddletown
- National Grid Reference:
- SY7578694293
Details
PUDDLETOWN
SY 7594 HIGH STREET (North
Side)
14/75 No. 38 and
Puddletown Primary
School
GV II
School, and former school house. Dated 1864. Rough ashlar walls with
ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with coped gables. Ashlar stacks set
irregularly along ridge. Part one storey, part one storey and loft, part 2
storeyed. No. 38 (the former school house) at left end. This has a
projecting gabled wing on the left and in the angle of this and the main
range a gabled porch. Ledged door in shouldered arched opening with curved
sided cusped triangular window over. In the wing, a 3-light stone mullioned
window with arched lights and cast iron glazing on ground floor. Similar
2-light window on first floor, and single light window in gable. Right of
the porch, on ground floor a similar 2-light window. In attic a gabled
dormer with similar window. The school has a projecting gabled wing at each
end, each with a porch - matching that of No. 38, on its inner side. In the
centre of the central section, a gabled dormer with date plaque. Below this
a 3-light stone mullioned and transomed window - the centre light raised,
with arched lights and cast iron glazing. Buttresses each side of window.
The left gable has a central buttress, terminating in an octagonal shaft
with moulded cornice - above gabled apex. Two 3-light stone mullioned and
transomed windows with arched lights and cast iron glazing. The right gable
has no central buttress, but a 5-light stone mullioned and transomed window
with arched lights and cast iron glazing. Single light window over, in
gable. Good unspoiled example of a Victorian village school
Listing NGR: SY7578694293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106263
- 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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