The School House, With Front Boundary Railings
THE SCHOOL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236117
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The School House, With Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, THE GREEN
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- Date:
- 1999-10-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/00038/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236117
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The School House, With Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, THE GREEN
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:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Sutton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46874 25362
Details
LONG SUTTON CP THE GREEN (West side) ST4625 12/157 The School House, with front boundary railings - GV II
Former school, now house. 1840, reshaped 1871. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Single storey with attic, 2 bays. Below, 3-light chamfered mullioned windows under square labels; above, pairs of 2-light mullioned windows set under segmental arched heads in slightly projecting gabled dormers, each on 3 corbel blocks, with slit gable vents over: between bays a part-glazed door in plain opening having thin stone lintol. C20 extension to rear. Interior not seen. 3 metres (average) east of house the boundary railings, about 1 metre high, cast iron with spear-head points, and pair of simple matching gates, which add to setting of house. Erected as the village schoolroom in 1840, on the site of a former vicarage, it became the master's house in 1871 when the present school (q.v) was erected opposite. (VCH vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4687425362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263223
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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