Greenfylde School
GREENFYLDE SCHOOL, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208681
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Greenfylde School
- Statutory Address:
- GREENFYLDE SCHOOL, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208681
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Greenfylde School
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENFYLDE SCHOOL, SILVER STREET
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:
- GREENFYLDE SCHOOL, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 35975 14455
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3414 SILVER STREET 1939-1/6/114 (South side) 29/07/76 Greenfylde School
GV II
School. Dated 1878. Rough Ham Hill stone ashlar and rusticated blue lias stone bands, with crested slate roof. Shallow U-shape plan with long rear range to the right, backing onto Wharf Lane. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: Single storey. 2 stepped-forward gables flank the facade. The left gable has paired 2-light windows with mullions and transoms, pointed trefoil heads to each light and plain quatrefoil lights to the tops, under hoodmoulds with foliate stops; a pierced cross in apex of the gable. The gable to the right has one 3-light window with pointed trefoil heads below a similar hoodmould and a plain slit window in the apex. The central set-back range has a planked door with elaborate strap hinges to the left; right-of-centre is a forward stack, offset, with a C20 rebuilt top; set in the stack is a decorative recessed panel with the date A.D.1878 under a hoodmould; flanking the chimney are pairs of 2-light windows similar to the others but without hoodmoulds. A plinth and a string course, at sill level with head-stops flanking the door, span the whole facade. The left wing and the centre have rough bands of blue lias. Set diagonally, close to the south-west angle of the ridge, is a belfry; it has a slate-hung base, turned corner pillars with louvres between and a steep slate pyramidal roof topped by a wrought-iron finial; this has 4 drooping leaves to the base, a ball to the centre with a crown above and a smaller ball to the top. The rear elevation reflects the front, with a left-of-centre gable which has an elaborate wrought-iron finial. The long rear wing, to the west, in similar style with 2-light cross-windows and gabled porches to the side, Decorated-style gable end window and 3 ornamental vents to the ridge. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: the school was built to replace the original one in Court Barton (qv) which then became Ilminster Girls' Grammar School. A robust and richly detailed example of a Gothic Revival school.
Listing NGR: ST3597514455
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383477
- 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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