Old Schoolhouse
OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119321
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Schoolhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01594/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119321
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Schoolhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, SHERBORNE 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:
- OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trent
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59803 18582
Details
TRENT ST 5818-5918 SHERBORNE ROAD (north side) 18/197 Old Schoolhouse 11.7.51 - II Former schoolhouse, now private dwelling. Built 1678 and endowed by John Young. Dressed stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks with cornices at cable ends and on rear wall. 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullions, C20 metal case- ments with rectangular lead lights. Separate returned labels to ground floor. Continuous label to first floor. Front door, right of centre, with ovolo-moulded jambs and depressed-arch in a square head. Label returned high over doorway. Plank and moulded-muntin door, with renewed weatherboard, C17. Short rear wing, rendered and slated with gable-coping. C20 metal casements. Side door, plank. Interior: east gable-wall has open fireplace embrasure with cambered lintel exposed. Over the front doorway was formerly an inscription recording the building and endowing of the school by will of John Young in 1678. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 260(23)).
Listing NGR: ST5980318582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105738
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 260
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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