Old Grammar School
OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 32, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284503
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 32, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11786/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284503
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 32, HIGH STREET
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:
- OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 32, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15448 41553
Details
AMESBURY HIGH STREET SU 1541 (south side)
11/45 No 32 (Old Grammar School)
II Rose's Charity Grammar School, now private house. Late C18. Chalkstone and brick, the front roughcast and painted. Tiled roof. Two storeys and attic, two narrow bays to front, with 3 bay rear wing. Entrance central to rear cross wing. Front has plat band and brick dentilled eaves, and 16-pane replacement sashes to ground floor, 12-paned to first floor with flush boxes and applied timber shutters. Gable stack to left and roof half hipped to right. Hipped dormer. Rear block is of chalk blocks with brick quoins. Six panelled door, 12-paned sashes and one 16-paned, and gable stack. One dormer. Interior has C18 doors on ground floor. Rear range has diminished principals to roof with one tie and clasped purlins. Joseph Addison, poet, essayist and-statesman, is said to have attended the grammar school while in the south transept of the church, before being transferred here in 1807.
Listing NGR: SU1544841553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321357
- 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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