Sherston Church of England School
SHERSTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390514
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Sherston Church of England School
- Statutory Address:
- SHERSTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390514
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Sherston Church of England School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHERSTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL
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:
- SHERSTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85350 85906
Details
SHERSTON
1359/0/10030 Sherston Church of England School 11-JUL-03
GV II National School. 1845; extended 1895. Coursed limestone with freestone dressings. Stone tile roof with gabled ends. Gable-end, axial and lateral stone stacks with diagonally-set shafts.
PLAN: Schoolrooms on left with boys' and girls' entrance porches at front and classroom wing at rear, and with integral master's house on right; on right [south] side of house is 1895 extension in form of a cross-wing.
Tudor Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey school and 1 storey and attic master's house. School on left with 3-light stone mullion window at centre and large gabled porches to left and right with chamfered 4-centred arch doorways, moulded stone coping, kneelers, obelisk finials and inscriptions: National School, Established 1845; stone bellcote over left [north] gable end with arched opening and finial, over pair of large 2-light mullion-transom windows in north gable end; master's house projecting on right with gable on left and gabled dormer on right, 2-window range, 2-light stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds. 1895 extension on right with gable-end to front with large stone mullion-transom window with side-lights and date and oculus in gable above. Rear [east] 1845 school has gable with large 3-light stone mullion-transom window and gabled wing on right; 1895 extension on left has large stone mullion-transom window with side-lights, oculus in gable and lateral stack at side with weathered set-offs; late C20 single storey extensions with flat roofs in the angles of the rear wings.
INTERIOR: Classrooms, formerly open to roofs, have inserted suspended ceilings.
A largely intact village National School with a later Victorian extension, having important townscape vale in the village centre.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490433
- 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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