Manor School, With Forecourt Walls
MANOR SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284317
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Manor School, With Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS
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- Date:
- 2003-06-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/10458/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284317
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Manor School, With Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS
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:
- MANOR SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Durnford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 13786 38495
Details
DURNFORD GREAT DURNFORD SU 13 NW 8/112 Manor School, with 10.1.58 forecourt walls (formerly listed as "Manor House")
II Manor house, now girls' school. c1710-30 early-mid C19 and 1912-13 by George Silley of Craven Street, London, for Capt. Tryon. Header bond brickwork with stone dressings on a stone plinth. Tiled roofs. Three storeys, attic and cellars. Main east front is of 5 bays, with raised first floor over rusticated plinth. Wide central 6-panelled door with sashed sidelights, enclosed within stone pilastered frame with elongated acanthus consoles to a fluted architrave and triangular pediment. Five steps. Moulded string to first floor with end Ionic pilasters rising to eaves cornice. Ground and first floors have 12-paned sashes, the central window to the first floor having similar tripartite stone frame, but with horizontal cornice. Second floor added early C19, has 9-paned sashes and octagonal window to centre. Roof hipped, and two 12- paned sashed and hipped dormers. Stacks to side walls of block. Extensive rear block added c1840 and this, with east and west fronts refaced 1913 when south west wing and block extended to east as 3 storeys and basement service wing. Rear elevation is in Flemish bond brickwork with tiled roof, stone quoins to wings. Five bay central block with large semi-circular two-storey central bay, and l-bay end wings projecting. Central section has continuous iron balcony of c1840. South front has canted bay, and to rear of front block a door with eared architrave and open pediment enclosing mantled arms. Datestone on quoined wing reads AT CT (Tryon) 1913. Interior: Entrance hall has black and white stone tiles and moulded plaster cornice. Wide corridor to right leads to C19 stair with simple wreathed handrails. Classroom to right of hallway has moulded cornice and timber chimneypiece. Most of interior mid Cl9. Forecourt walls, C18, brick with stone weathered copings form semi-circular arms and terminate in brick piers with pyramidal stone caps.
Listing NGR: SU1378638495
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321422
- 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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