Former School
FORMER SCHOOL, SANDFORD ORCAS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390933
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Former School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SCHOOL, SANDFORD ORCAS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390933
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Former School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SCHOOL, SANDFORD ORCAS ROAD
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:
- FORMER SCHOOL, SANDFORD ORCAS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandford Orcas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 62306 20801
Details
SANDFORD ORCAS
1611/0/10009 SANDFORD ORCAS ROAD 22-JUN-04 Former School
II School and master's house. 1859. Stone rubble with Ham stone dressings. Steeply-pitched clay scalloped tile roof with stone-coped gable ends with kneelers and gableted apexes. Chimney stack at left gable end with rebuilt brick shaft. PLAN: Schoolroom on right and master's house in crosswing on left. Tudor Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic master's house on left in gabled crosswing, ground floor blind, first floor with 3-light window with hoodmould and 2-light attic window above with trefoil ventilator in gable apex; single-storey schoolroom on right with two 2-light windows; all windows with moulded stone frames with hoodmoulds. Right-hand return gable end has large 4-light cross-mullion-transom window with hoodmould and quatrefoil ventilator in gable above. INTERIOR not inspected. A good example of a small parish school and master's house in the Tudor Gothic style.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492221
- 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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