Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
FORMER QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GRAMMAR SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119576
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GRAMMAR SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119576
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GRAMMAR SCHOOL LANE
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:
- FORMER QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GRAMMAR SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimborne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 00948 99819
Details
SZ 0099 NE 2/44
16.1.74
GRAMMAR SCHOOL LANE
(east side)Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (formerly listed as
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School,King Street)
GII
Dated 1851 on date stone.Architects Morris and Hebson.Imposing almost symmetrical building in Tudor style of two storeys and attics,red brick with blue diaperwork with stone mullioned windows and dressings.Tiled roof with ornamental cresting tiles and many shafted plain rectangular stacks.Central coped gable with Perpendicular style traceried window with niche over on first floor and Tudor arched door below with decorated spandrels,now converted into a window,flanked by single lightstone windows.To right and left of this are slightly projecting towers.These have narrow Tudor arched doors on the ground floor and first floor crocketted statue niches flanked by small stone windows.Above are octagonal brick and stone lanterns with original lead cupolas, stone gargoyles and weathervanes.To the right is a section with a four light mullioned and transomed window on ground floor and a three light window above. The balancing section to the left has two windows similar, but all three light.To the extreme ends of the front are slightly projecting gabled wings with canted stone mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor and stone mullioned windows with hood moulding to first floor.
Listing NGR: SZ0094899819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107067
- 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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