Custos Lodge at Sherborne School
CUSTOS LODGE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103833
- 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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