Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School and Front Boundary Railings
ODCOMBE VOLUNTARY AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOL AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, DRAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241587
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ODCOMBE VOLUNTARY AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOL AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, DRAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241587
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ODCOMBE VOLUNTARY AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOL AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, DRAY ROAD
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:
- ODCOMBE VOLUNTARY AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOL AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, DRAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Odcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 50609 15440
Details
ST5015 ODCOMBE CP DRAY ROAD (West side) 10/248 Odcombe V A Primary School and front boundary railings (formerly listed as School) 19.4.61 GV II School. Mid and late C19. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; stone chimney stack. Single-storey, 3+3 bays. Earlier and slightly larger section, to east, has 3-light pointed arched windows with Y-tracery, no labels, with pointed arched doorway under arched label between bays 1 and 2, and with later door in lean-to against east gable: on west gable a late C19 extension with end buttresses, moulded eaves course, cruciform wave mould mullioned and transomed windows, in hollow-chamfered recesses, under square labels which drop to transome level; these rectangular-leaded below and ornamentally-leaded above transomes. Small lancet window in south gable. Interior not seen. About one metre south of the building, with returns at each end, are wrot-iron railings on low stone wall, in all about one metre high, with arrowhead spikes and urn finials to braced standards, gap opposite doorway, all contributing to the setting of the school.
Listing NGR: ST5060915440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440743
- 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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