STONAR SCHOOL

STONAR SCHOOL, COMBE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263046
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: STONAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: STONAR SCHOOL, COMBE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263046
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: STONAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: STONAR SCHOOL, COMBE LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STONAR SCHOOL, COMBE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Atworth
National Grid Reference:: ST8493665550

Details

ST 86 NW 1/52 13.11.62

ATWORTH COMBE LANE (west side) Stonar School (formerly listed as Cottles House)

GV II

Country house, now girls' school. 1775-78 by Thomas Jelly and John Palmer of Bath for Robert Hale, extended c1832 by H.E. Goodrich. Limestone ashlar, Welsh slate mansard roof with stone stacks. Two- storey and attic, 7-window south front. Rambling L-plan. Central 6-panelled door with fanlight and ogee-headed architrave, compound pilasters to cornice, 2-storey canted bay either side with three 12-pane round arched sashes With pointed hoodmoulds, linked by impost band. First floor sashes are Tudor-arched; all interlaced glazing bars. Moulded cornice to battlemented parapet, three dormers with arched heads to lower mansard pitch. Attached to right is C19 addition in similar style with canted bay and mullioned casements, C20 porch, right return has arched sashes to both floors. Left return has two canted bays as front, central ground floor arched sash instead of doorway, diagonally-set stack on south west corner with moulded octagonal stack, three attic dormers as front. Rear early C19 stucco wing attached to rear, Tudor-arched sashes to ground and first floors. Rear has C20 single-storey additions, early C19 range to left has former C19 rear entrance concealed within additions, C19 wing to right has pairs of arched sashes. Interior: Central inner octagonal porch with shallow vaulted ceiling with plaster decoration. Room to right is school library with reset late C16 stone fireplace with caryatids and scrolled frieze, carved overmantel with heraldic arms, probably of Pawlett family. Room to left of entrance has good plaster ceiling with dentilled cornice, scrolled and moulded handrail, top-lit. Original early C19 joinery throughout; 6-panelled doors and window shutters, former rear entrance has door with 6 fielded panels, fanlight and sidelights. Some Adam-style first floor fireplaces. Cottles was rebuilt on site of earlier house for Hale family, who also rebuilt the church of St Michael (q.v.) and founded the school (q.v.). (Plans and Accounts in Gloucestershire Records Office; Atworth History Group, Atworth - A Little History, 1977).

Listing NGR: ST8493665550

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Legacy System number:: 433401
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Atworth History Group' in Atworth - A Little History, (1977)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.