St Peter's Primary School
ST PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217516
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- St Peter's Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- ST PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217516
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- St Peter's Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARR 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:
- ST PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARR STREET
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 03366 91582
Details
POOLE
SZ0391 PARR STREET, Parkstone 958-1/14/247 (West side) 30/06/80 St Peter's Primary School
GV II
Primary school. Dated 1833, extended to rear in later C19. Rendered cob with slate hipped roof. Rectangular plan with later C19 rear extensions. Simple composition with Gothick details. Single-storey; 3-window range. 4-centre-arched openings with a left-hand doorway, with bottom-hinged overlight over mid C20 door, and early C19 wooden windows with Y mullions; former right-hand end porch with crenellated parapet over segmental-arched late C20 plank door, an original matching porch to left having been altered leaving front wall with segmental-arched doorway only. Left-hand return has similar 2-light window and right-hand return has early C19 small-paned (4x4) casement. Later C19 rear left wings of brick with hipped and gabled slate roofs; mid C20 flat-roofed rear right wing. INTERIOR plain, but retains semicircular arch framing Y-tracery window over former doorway to rear right. An unusual example of a school building with cob walls, built under the patronage of prominent local families. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 239).
Listing NGR: SZ0336691582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412578
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 239
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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