Priorsfield School
PRIORSFIELD SCHOOL, PRIORSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294682
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Priorsfield School
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORSFIELD SCHOOL, PRIORSFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294682
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Priorsfield School
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORSFIELD SCHOOL, PRIORSFIELD 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:
- PRIORSFIELD SCHOOL, PRIORSFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95052 46177
Details
SU 94 NE COMPTON C.P. PRIORSFIELD ROAD
3/78 Priorsfield School
II
House, now school. Circa 1900 by C A Voysey. Colourwashed roughcast with hipped, machine tiled roofs and deep eaves. Built around a central courtyard with an L-shaped front range and entrance in rear entrance angle. One storey with double row of attics to right, two storeys in gable to left. Rendered square ridge stacks to centre of right hand side, rear stacks to left and ridge stacks to left. Wood framed, leaded casement fenestration with tiled cills. Battered buttresses to ends. Four upper dormers, one to right end hipped, and four through- eaves dormers below. Three large mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor. Square tower to re-entrant angle with one window to first floor. Two gables to end of left hand range and one window on each floor. Part glazed door placed diagonally across the re-entrant angles with flanking square bay windows. Flat hood over on two columns with glazed vault.
Courtyard ranges: Continuous leaded glazing on ground floor of one side, through-eaves dormers above. Taller, two storey ranges to sides with windows alternating with buttresses, massive gable to rear.
Left hand return front (garden front): Massive gable with flanking gabled bays on either side. Two windows on ground and first floor of central gable and attic, lower two storeyed gables to sides. Buttressed and dormered range set back to right with two angle bays flanking recessed entrance. Massive ridge stacks. C20 brick extensions to rear and left.
Interior: Some fittings remain, mainly panelling and fireplaces.
Listing NGR: SU9505246177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288335
- 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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