School House
SCHOOL HOUSE, WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346028
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, WEST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346028
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, WEST END
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:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, WEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48518 28589
Details
ST4828 SOMERTON CP WEST END (North side)
8/232 School House (Formerly listed as west Street Infants School and attached house)
17.4.59
GV II
School house and former schoolroom. Mid C19. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; plain clay tile roof between coped gables, with ornamental clay tile ridge to schoolroom and bellcote, without bell, on west gable; stone chimney stacks. House 2 storey, schoolroom single storey; House L-plan of 2 bays east elevation and gable + 1 bay return, schoolroom 3 bays attached to west gable of house. West Street (North elevation) has hollow chamfer mullioned windows, with labels; 2 light to lower gable, and 3 light at both levels next bay. Schoolroom has 3 plain chamfered mullioned and transomed windows; two small steel casements added to house gable. East elevation of house has 3 and a 2 light mullioned window above and mid C20 steel casements below. Entrances on south side, which has timber and tiled verandah and casement windows to house. Extension of C19 and C20 to west gable of schoolroom. Interiors not seen. House good example of the traditional style frequenty used by local land owning family, the Pinneys, in Somerton: they built this school and rebuilt, for instance, the Tudor Cottage, Market Place (qv).
Listing NGR: ST4851828589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263040
- 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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