Primary School
PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131171
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131171
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
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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:
- PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Knoyle
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87935 30487
Details
EAST KNOYLE CHURCH ROAD ST 83 SE (north side) 8/12 Primary School GV II National school, now closed. 1872-73 by George Aitchison Jnr., paid for by Alfred Seymour of Knoyle House. Limestone ashlar, steeply pitched tiled roof with coped verges. L-plan. Single- storey. Entrance front at right angles to road; shouldered doorway with flat stone hood on consoles and carved fluted pilasters, two 2-light windows to left with Moorish cusped heads and central shaft, dripstone. To right of door is gable end of main schoolroom with large pointed window of 3 lights separated by shafts and with oculi over each, tympanum filled with ornate plate tracery of floral arrangement, moulded string course carried over as hoodmould, square sundial to gable and turret at apex for weathervane. Main front to road has five 2-light windows with Moorish heads and centre shafts, eaves of roof carried on extended rafters with carved ends. East gable end has rose window. Rear of wing and main range have cross windows and 2-light mullioned casements. An unusually original and expensive village school, provided by the local gentry. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol XI, 1980)
Listing NGR: ST8793530487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321118
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crowley, B A, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1980)
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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