Lodge of Canford School
LODGE OF CANFORD SCHOOL, CANFORD MAGNA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217463
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge of Canford School
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE OF CANFORD SCHOOL, CANFORD MAGNA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217463
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge of Canford School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE OF CANFORD SCHOOL, CANFORD MAGNA
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:
- LODGE OF CANFORD SCHOOL, CANFORD MAGNA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 03136 98824
Details
POOLE
SZ0398 CANFORD MAGNA, Canford Magna 958-1/9/221 (East side (off)) 30/06/80 Lodge of Canford School (Formerly Listed as: MAGNA ROAD Lodge of Canford School, north-west of Canford Church)
GV II
House and gateway. c1850, extended, by Charles Barry. Brick with stone dressings, brick ridge stack and a tiled roof. Tudor Revival style. Single-depth plan with 1-room S extension. Single storey and attic; 3-bay range. A tall moulded 2-centre carriage arch set in a tall gable with oval Canford Arms panel and flanked by shallow buttresses, the roll-top gable coping extends to the right-hand gabled half dormer and end gables, with ogee gable finials. Ground-floor paired 2-centre-arched windows in label moulds, the dormer has a small arched window, with a similar paired window in the right-hand end gable. Left-hand 3-stage tower with square base with diagonal buttresses, slit windows and an octagonal belfry with open cusped lights, and leaded ogee domed roof. Large stack with ashlar base and 4-sided shaft. Similar rear elevation, with a mid C20 extension. INTERIOR not inspected. The main entrance gateway to Canford House (now Canford School (qv)), remodelled by Barry for the Guest family, and part of a large group of similarly styled estate houses. Originally one room wide but extended to S.
Listing NGR: SZ0313698824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412434
- 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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