Boyle's Old School
BOYLE'S OLD SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323972
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Boyle's Old School
- Statutory Address:
- BOYLE'S OLD SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323972
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Boyle's Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOYLE'S OLD SCHOOL, 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:
- BOYLE'S OLD SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yetminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59243 10839
Details
YETMINSTER ST 5910 HIGH STREET (North side) 11/138 Boyle's Old School 11.7.51 GV II
Former school, now part used as photographic studio. Founded by Robert Boyle in 1691 and built 1697. Rubble stone walls, tiled roof with coped gables, one brick and one plastered end stack. L-shaped plan with rear wing. Main range 2 storeys, rear wing single-storey. On street front - blocked doorway with 4-centred arch. Stone panel above this with moulded surround. Ground floor has 2 tall stone mullioned and transome windows under hoodmoulds, with casements with centre horizontal bar. First floor has 3 stone mullioned windows under hoodmoulds with similar casements. Entrance in right end wall, in C20 flat roofed porch. Rear wing has slate roof and one ashlar stack. 2 mullioned and transomed windows with casements with centre horizontal bar. Note. The left-hand section of the ground floor of the front range, and all the first floor, are now occupied as part of School House (q.v.) (RCHM Monument 12 Dorset. Vol. I.)
Listing NGR: ST5924310839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106155
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
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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