Bryanston School
BRYANSTON SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1305449
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bryanston School
- Statutory Address:
- BRYANSTON SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1305449
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bryanston School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRYANSTON SCHOOL
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:
- BRYANSTON SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bryanston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87039 07370
Details
BRYANSTON ST 80 NE BRYANSTON
5/26 Bryanston School
- I
Country house, now school, 1889-94, by R Norman Shaw for Lord Portman. Red brickwork in English bond with Portland stone ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof. Banded brick and ashlar stacks symmetrically disposed along and behind the ridge. A very large loosely neo-Baroque mansion. Symmetrical. 2 storeys with basement and double attics. Entrance facade of 11 bays (7 to the main central block) with flanking service wings at right angles. Main block disposed 2:3:2 with outer bays defined by banded brick and ashlar. Most windows with rusticated ashlar surrounds and keystones. Outer bays of central block have elongated staircase windows. Sashes with glazing bars. Central bays of service wing have large 3-bay segmental pediments containing roundels. Central doorway to main block has Gibbs surround and segmental pediment. Range of 7 dormers with alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Flanking wings have first floor plat band. Moulded and dentilled cornice. Garden front has broadly similar detailing. 23 bays: 5:3:7:3:5.
Interior features: central spine corridor running the length of the house and passing straight through the central saloon. The saloon is open through the whole height of the house and is lit through a central hidden cupola. It is surrounded by a first floor balcony supported on giant Ionic columns. Heavy late C17 style staircase. Double apsed entrance hall. The main rooms contain rich plasterwork mainly in a neo-baroque or neo-Adam style and classical chimney- pieces some perhaps reused from an earlier house by J Wyatt. The house exhibits many early technical advances having been lit from its date of building by electricity and retaining its original hydraulic lifts. (Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p,l18-120. )
Listing NGR: ST8703907370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103300
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 118-120
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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