The School
THE SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277949
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The School
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277949
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE 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:
- ST 27013 13397
Details
BUCKLAND ST MARY CP ST21SE BUCKLAND ST MARY VILLAGE
5/42 The School
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- II
School, 1851, enlarged l883. Chert stone random rubble, Has stone dressings, plain clay tile roofs, coped verges, large lateral stack on facade centre right. Plan: not clear without internal inspection, thought to be 2-storey west end with single storey porch, full height classrooms another classroom in addition at east end, One and a half storeys, 2;1;2;2 bavs, all stone mullioned windows. Tudor arch heads to centre 3 bays, others square hooded, two 2-light in gabled dormers left 4-light below, roof continued as catslide over timber-framed porch, 3-light full-height mullioned and transomed window left of external stack with arch headed niche containing bell, full height 6-light mullioned and transomed window right projecting through eaves with gabled top, small 6-light to right mullioned and transomed window, in lower roofed addition two 2-light; right return (east gable end) elliptical window and quatrefoil opening in gable end. Interior not seen. The school was erected at the expense of the incumbent, the Rev E J Lance. It is not listed among the works of Benjamin Ferrey, architect of St Mary's Church (qv) but he may have been consulted. Kelly's Directory, 1914).
Listing NGR: ST2701313397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Somerset, (1914)
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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