The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119354
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119354
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59871 17186
Details
NETHER COMPTON ST 5917 NETHER COMPTON VILLAGE 13/69 The Old School (formerly listed as School) 11.7.51 GV II Former Schoolmaster's House and National School, now private dwelling and studio. Dated Nether and Over Compton National School 1843, on shield over entrance. Ashlar stone walls. Slate roof with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Rendered stack at right hand gable of School- master's House, and octagonal stack at right hand end. The house: 2 storeys, 2 windows, 3-light straight-chamfered stone mullions. Iron casements with lead lights. Door at left ground, with separate label over. Plank door, C20. Former school-room, one storey with crenellated parapet, 3 windows. 3-light mullion-and-transom windows with trefoil-cusped heads and moulded jambs. The porch entrance, left of centre, has diagonal buttresses, stone gable-coping with moulded kneelers and a cross over. Doorway has a Tudor- arch in a square head, with trefoiled spandrels. Label with head-stops. Plank door. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 102(5)).
Listing NGR: ST5986117192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 102
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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