North Street School and Attached Walls and Railings
NORTH STREET SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293202
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- North Street School and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH STREET SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293202
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- North Street School and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH STREET SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, NORTH 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:
- NORTH STREET SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 36116 14624
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3614 NORTH STREET 1939-1/7/89 (East side) 29/07/76 North Street School and attached walls and railings
GV II
School. Dated 1853. Rough Ham Hill stone ashlar to the front, limestone rubble and brick to the rear, slate roof with brick stacks to the rear building. EXTERIOR: the North Street front, facing west, is single-storey; symmetrical 3-window range in Domestic Tudor/Gothic style. To the central main block are 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with cast-iron frames and small panes: cornice, and a parapet inscribed " National Daily and Sunday Schools, erected by Voluntary Subscription A D 1853"; and to the centre of this is a bellcote with an offset gable and an obelisk finial. Flanked by Gothic-style diagonally-planked door with ornamental strap hinges, and moulded segmental-arched architraves. These are set in gabled walls screening a single-storey lean-to to the left, and a gabled wing to the right. To the rear is a large limestone rubble building with a circular louvre in gable facing west. The east-facing gable with larger circular louvre is entered by a brick staircase to a first-floor door, flanked by 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. The right return is 2 storeys; of 4-window range: the first floor has paired 4/4-pane sashes with thick wooden lintels and brick surrounds; the ground floor has two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with a taller 4-light, 2-transom one to the left and a door to the right. The first floor of the left return has 3 paired 4/4-pane sashes with wooden lintels and a single 4/4 one to the right. The ground floor has 6/6-pane horned sashes and one 3-light mullioned and transomed window to left of centre. INTERIOR: typical of a mid C19 school, with tongue-and-groove panelling to the lower part of the walls. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The forecourt is enclosed by a low Ham Hill stone wall stepped down to the contour of the hill; the piers have pyramidal tops, the railings are wide-spaced long/short spearhead. Substantial stone steps flanked by low walls lead to each door, and the rear building is enclosed by a high rubblestone wall.
Listing NGR: ST3612414622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383451
- 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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