School House With Rear Boundary Wall
SCHOOL HOUSE WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, GROVE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281859
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- School House With Rear Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, GROVE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281859
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- School House With Rear Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, GROVE 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:
- SCHOOL HOUSE WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, GROVE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69932 72578
Details
PORTLAND
SY67SE GROVE ROAD, Grove 969-1/1/136 (North East side) 21/09/78 School House with rear boundary wall
GV II
School extension, former house of Assistant Governor, Portland Prison. c 1870, possibly from office of Capt. Du Cane, RE. Portland ashlar, slate roof. Compact L-plan, with slightly set-forward wide gable, left, and set-back lower wing. Two storeys, 1+1-windowed. Paired sashes with horizontal bar in chamfer surrounds with stops to jambs and central mullion; flush, deep chamfer cills. Coped gable with small roll mould saddle stone above blind oculus in flush relieving arch. Plinth, mid moulded string, moulded eaves, 3 large stacks on moulded skirts and with heavy cappings to Lombard bands. The set-back wing has two small sashes above a plank door in arched opening with Romanesque mouldings, and drip course; left return gable coped, with kneelers and central stack. Right return has a tall stair window to right, the string stepped below its cill. Subsidiary Features: At the rear of the site is a lofty ashlar boundary wall incorporating a wide blocked opening with rusticated quoins and voussoirs to segmental head; this formerly an access from the house to the adjoining prison. An important unit in a good group, set between St. Peter's Church (qv) and Grove County Infants' School (qv), and from its detailing clearly from the same design office.
Listing NGR: SY6993272578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381957
- 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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