MILTON ABBOT SCHOOL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165500
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MILTON ABBOT SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: MILTON ABBOT SCHOOL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165500
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MILTON ABBOT SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: MILTON ABBOT SCHOOL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MILTON ABBOT SCHOOL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Milton Abbot
National Grid Reference:: SX 41036 78979

Details

SX 447 NW MILTON ABBOT MILTON GREEN

10/263 Milton Abbot School - II

Schoolroom and adjoining schoolhouse, the schoolhouse now converted to additional classrooms. 1829, founded as an endowed school by the Duke of Bedford. Stone rubble with slate roofs with coped gables at ends and parapets, 5 stone stacks with diagonally-set shafts, one a projecting lateral stack to the front of the schoolroom. Tudor style with some Gothick details to the schoolroom. Single-storey schoolroom with left gable end porch, 2-storey schoolhouse, originally divided into accommodation for 2 families, adjoining at right and slightly set back. Picturesque asymmetrical 4-window front to schoolroom, symmetrical 4-window front to schoolhouse forming a long 7-window range overall, each block with a parapet with moulded cornice and a plinth. The schoolroom has a large projecting lateral stack on front flanked by coped set-offs on the front at the left, and a tall 4-light canted bay window on the front at the right with a stone gabled bell turret above. The left gable end porch has a parapet and a doorway at the left end. Most of the windows have been reglazed but retain their Gothick character. 2-light porch window with arched lights and 12-pane sashes. On either side of the stack is a 2-light casement with a high transom and arched lights, 9-panes above the transom. The bay window, which may be an addition, has arched timber lights with high transoms, 9-panes above the transom, 15 below. The schoolhouse has a gableted roof with 2 stacks on the high ridge and 2 to the rear, all with paired shafts. A large 4-centred archway on the front at the centre gives into a recessed porch with two 4-panel front doors on the rear wall of the arched recess. Two 1-light casements above the archway with hoodmoulds have C20 glazing, the other 4-windows, also with hoodmoulds are 2-light C20 casements, all in original embrasures. The 2 houses have rear stone porches with chamfered arched doorways, 1 blocked. 2-light C19 casements to the rear have glazing bars. Interior not inspected. Milton Abbot was one of the last endowed elementary schools in Devon, and originally for boys only. It became a Voluntary School in 1848 and a Board School in 1877. R.R. Sellman, Devon Village Schools in the Nineteenth Century (1967) (Photograph, p.48).

Listing NGR: SX4103678979

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Legacy System number:: 92505
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sellman, R R , Devon Village Schools in the Nineteenth Century, (1967), 48

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.