Dauntsey's School
DAUNTSEY'S SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364593
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dauntsey's School
- Statutory Address:
- DAUNTSEY'S SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364593
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dauntsey's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAUNTSEY'S 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:
- DAUNTSEY'S SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Lavington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99958 53638
Details
WEST LAVINGTON HIGH STREET, West Lavington ST 95 SE (west side) 5/303 Dauntsey's School II Main block of public school. 1898, by C.E. Ponting. Red brick with vitrified brick panels to upper floors, tiled roofs. Main school facing east, symmetrical with central tower over entrance, and six bay wings ending in five bay terminal pavilions. Central panelled door with radial spokes to arched top. Stone voussoirs and pilasters, and flanking mullioned and transomed windows. Crest over. Tower of 2 upper stages with shaped parapet. Tile hung turret supporting arched bellcote and windvane. Flanking bays have paired paned timber casement windows, the second and fifth bays raised as hipped dormers above eaves. Left end pavilion has central arched entrance and two flat roofed dormers. Interior: hall tiled. Two arches with crowned bust in cartouche in spandrel. Rear stair hall has iron balustrade to flying stair, 2 storeys high and roof light.
Listing NGR: ST9995853638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312204
- 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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