Listed Building: PRIVATE SCHOOL HOUSE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL. BOY'S SCHOOL HOUSE AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL. (103835)

ABBEY ROAD 1. 1625 (South East Side) Private school House at Sherborne School. Boy's school House at ST 6316 1/283 Sherborne School. II GV 2. Built 1860 to the design of R C Carpenter. 2 storeys and attic. Stone slate roof. Rough ashlar wall. Private School House: facing South, six 2-light hipped dormers. Stacks with 3 octagonal stone shafts. From right to left hand, bay one has 2-light mullioned window above and a single light window below, bay two has 2-light windows above and below, bay three has 3-light windows above and below, bay four has a 2-light window above and a wide gabled porch on ground floor. 5th and 6th bays blank on first floor; on ground floor, large splayed 3-sided bay window with embattled parapet; added 1884. Facing west, gable at South end with splayed bay rising through ground and first floors; small attic window. To north of this, 2 hipped attic dormers; 3-light window on first floor and on ground floor another splayed bay with embattled parapet, the later an addition by Benjamin Ingelow, 1899-1700. Boy's School House: divided externally from Private School House by a low wall. At South end, passageway with wide pointed moulded arch at entrance with 2-light stone mullioned window above. To north of this, ten window bays. Hipped dormers of 3-lights. Ashlar stacks. 3-light windows on first floor; on ground floor, 2-light windows in 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th and 10th bays, 4-light window in 9th bay, rectangular bay of 5 lights in 6th bay and windows of 3-lights elsewhere. Moulded stringcourse above ground floor. The following buildings of Sherborne School surround the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary and form a group with themselves and with the Abbey Church of St Mary. Listing NGR: ST6373316544

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