Melplash School
MELPLASH SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215921
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Melplash School
- Statutory Address:
- MELPLASH SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215921
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Melplash School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELPLASH 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:
- MELPLASH SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Netherbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 48450 97566
Details
SY 49 NE NETHERBURY MELPLASH
7/139 Melplash School
GV II
Former School, now converted to house. 1849. Rubble stone walls and ashlar dressings. Steep slate roofs. Stone gable-copings with roll- moulded tops. Level kneelers with ogee-moulded soffits. Modillion eaves cornice. Cross-wing to road. One and 1½ storeys. Side range of 4-5 windows, 2-light cross-transomed ovolo-mullions with straight label over. Front wall to road has a projecting half-dormer carried down to the ground. Dormer window of 3-lights stepped up at the centre, with label likewise. Stone tablet with 'Melplash School'. Porch doorway on side wall, moulded jambs and a 4-centred head with returned label over. 2-leaf plank-and-muntin door, C19. West wall has a large 5-light mullion-and-transom window with returned label over. Interior: Hammer-beam roof to school-room with arch-braces to collar and queen-struts over.
Listing NGR: SY4845097566
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401212
- 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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