Listed Building: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL (105973)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1788/6/81
Date assigned 26 January 1956
Date last amended

Description

SY 78 NW WEST KNIGHTON 6/81 Old Schoolhouse and Old School 26.1.56 II GV Former Schoolhouse and attached School, now two private dwellings. Dated HB 1865. Dressed stone walls and ashlar quoins. Clay tile roof with gable ends and gabled to front, stone gable copings and ovolo moulded kneelers. Stone stacks with heavy capstones at left gable, and at right inner gable. Schoolhouse: two storeys, three windows, 2 : 1 : 2, straight chamfered stone mullions with separate returned labels over, cast iron casements with lozenge pattern of glazing bars. Doorway at centre has a depressed arch head and straight chamfered jambs, plank door with strap hinges, separate label over. School: one storey, three windows, 3 : 2 cross transomed: 3 lights with separate returned labels. C20 metal casements with lozenge leaded lights. Projecting bellcote in bay 2 has weathered buttresses and capstones. Porch entrance at south end of front wall gabled with a clock in the gable, entrance has a two centred head and separate label, plank door C20. Listing NGR: SY7332787679

Map

Location

Grid reference SY 7332 8767 (point)
Civil Parish West Knighton; Dorset
District (historic) West Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Sep 9 2019 10:14AM