Winsham County Primary School
WINSHAM COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366436
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Winsham County Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- WINSHAM COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366436
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Winsham County Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WINSHAM COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH 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:
- WINSHAM COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3746706322
Details
WINCHAM CP CHURCH STREET (West side)
ST30NE
4/97 Winsham County Primary School
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GV II
Village school with schoolhouse. Dated 1850, with some modifications. Local stone roughly squared with Ham stone
ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks. 'H'-plan; single-storey school
and 2-storey house. South elevation to Pooles Lane has 4 bays, with wide lancet windows under labels, having inserted
small-pane casements: between bays 2/3 a projecting gabled porch with cross finial and pointed-arched doorway with
label, and set into gable an incised stone inscribed 'AD 1850", above which is a small stone tabernacle with boarded
sites containing the school bell. Pairs of later windows in the west and east end gables; the east elevation to Church
Street then extends northwards with a 3-unit plain window, a segmental pointed-arched doorway and another lancet
window: then the 3-bay school house, of which bay 3 is a north crosswing: trefoil-arched 3-light mullioned and
transomed windows under segmental-pointed relieving arches to lower bays 1 and 3, with 2-light mullioned and transomed
windows above, that to bay 1 set in a gabled dormer; a simpler window under the eaves to upper bay, 2, below which is a
segmental pointed-arched doorway. Interiors not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST3746706322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262221
- 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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