Wellhouse and Boundary Walls to School
WELLHOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248388
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wellhouse and Boundary Walls to School
- Statutory Address:
- WELLHOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO SCHOOL
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- Date:
- 2002-10-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/09282/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248388
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wellhouse and Boundary Walls to School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLHOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO 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:
- WELLHOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST2705113375
Details
BUCKLAND ST MARY CP
ST21SE
BUCKLAND ST MARY VILLAGE
5/43 Wellhouse and boundary walls to
school
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GV II
Boundary walls to school (qv) incorporating wellhouse containing drinking fountain. dated 1876, Random rubble chert
stone, Ham stone quoins and coping, stone slate roof to wellhouse. Wellhouse: single storey, one bay, set gable end on,
date stone in apex, moulded semi-circular headed opening with hoodmould and face terminals. splayed base. Brick barrel
vault roof, recessed rectangular plaque without inscription above octagonal stone with central tap, drain below.
Drinking trough of buff bricks with blue glazed brick coping abutting left return of wellhouse, jails, boundary wails
to school incorporating rear wall of wellhouse and returned to gatepiers, about 60m in length and one metre high
Hit-and-miss coping, moulded coping where walls swept up to gatepiers. Gatepiers: gabled tops, quoins, fillet to arris,
chamfered plinth. The tap is probably a C20 replacement of the original, more elaborate structure.
Listing NGR: ST2705113375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429984
- 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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