Symondsbury College Symondsbury College, Formerly Listed As the Manor House
SYMONDSBURY COLLEGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366049
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Symondsbury College Symondsbury College, Formerly Listed As the Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- SYMONDSBURY COLLEGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366049
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Symondsbury College Symondsbury College, Formerly Listed As the Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYMONDSBURY COLLEGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- SYMONDSBURY COLLEGE, FORMERLY LISTED AS THE MANOR HOUSE
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:
- SYMONDSBURY COLLEGE
- Statutory Address:
- SYMONDSBURY COLLEGE, FORMERLY LISTED AS THE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Symondsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 44491 93671
Details
SY 49 SW SYMONDSBURY SYMONDSBURY VILLAGE
6/147 Symondsbury College, 7.8.52 formerly listed as The Manor House
G.V. II
College, formerly Manor House. Mid C17 with C18 extension and late C19 alterations. Ashlar stone walls. Plain tile roof with gable ends and tile cresting. 3 stone stacks, at left gable, left of centre, right gable. Stone gable copings with a roll moulding on upper face. 2 storeys. 4 windows. 5 and 4 light stone mullion windows, ovolo below cavetto above. No labels to windows, so plain. 2 dormers: tile hung with hipped tile roofs. 2-light casements with leaded lights, C20. Front door at centre, inserted. 4-centred stone head with 2-light mullions to each side, C19. North wings: C19 re- fenestration of C17 core. C19 gables to upstairs windows. East wing: C18. Brick walls in English bond. Tiled roof, hipped at right hand end. Inserted stone mullions of 3 and 4 lights with hollow chamfers, C19. One brick stack behind ridge. Doorway left of centre, wood with horizontal planks.
Interior: Hall and West room with massive-wood mantelpieces. Caryatid pilasters with voluted abaci: reconstituted material, C17. Panelling inserted into west room square panels with carved pilaster caryatids at each division. Warrior's heads and vine-scroll. Cornice rail with similar motifs, all in low relief. Extent: c 30 feet x 11 feet on all four walls. Italianate, c C17. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 238 (2).
Listing NGR: SY4449493672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 238
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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