CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL

CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324333
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324333
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherborne
National Grid Reference:: ST 63774 16593

Details

ABBEY ROAD 1. 1625 (South East Side) Custos Lodge at Sherborne School SP 6316 1/281 II GV Eo 1853. Architects: R C Carpenter and W H Slater, probably. South front to Quadrangle of 1 storey and attic. Plain-tile roof with stone coping and kneelers; stone walls, ashlar quoins. To right hand above, 2-light mullioned window with gable over each light with four-centred head, and carved spandrels. To left hand above, small projecting corbelled chimney stack with small single-light cusp-headed window to right hand. On ground floor at right hand end a 2-centred stone doorway, moulded; door with cover strips and elaborate hinges; to left hand again, a 3-light window and a single light window, each light with four-centred head. In west gable end, a two-light window above and below; four-centred heads to lights; dripmoulds. Entrance to Custos Lodge through the adjoining Tower [See Sherborne School, North Block].

The following buildings of Sherborne School surround the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary and form a group with themselves and with the Abbey Church of St Mary.

Listing NGR: ST6377416593

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Legacy System number:: 103833
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.