Listed Building record MDO14068 - Strangways Hall, Market Street, Abbotsbury

Village School, now Village Hall. Dated AD 1858 on left hand gable. Abbotsbury and Portesham stone walls, banded. Buttresses with set-offs and aedicules framing the doorways. Plain slate and fish-scale slate roofs, with 2 gables of different sizes to front, the larger at left hand, and a gable-end at right hand.

Village School, now Village Hall. Dated AD 1858 on left hand gable. Abbotsbury and Portesham stone walls, banded. Buttresses with set-offs and aedicules framing the doorways. Plain slate and fish-scale slate roofs, with 2 gables of different sizes to front, the larger at left hand, and a gable-end at right hand. Stone- coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Single storey. 4 bays, irregular. Windows, front left hand: 5-light stone mullion with 4-centred heads, 3-light over this and 3 graduated top lights under stilted segmental-pointed heads. Label over stopped. C19 metal casements. Openwork quatrefoil in head of gable. Door with 4-centred head, plank with strap-hinges. Stone framing and 4 lights framing it (bay 2). Bay 3, gabled window of similar design to bay 1, though with 2-centred label over and 2 carved coats-of-arms with pinnacled heads over. Bay 4, door of similar design to bay 2, with 3-rectangular lights over the doorhead. Attached wall for 3 metres at right hand, rubble-stone with central doorway having dressed stone jambs and depressed-arch head. Gabled head projecting above the wall with a cusped pointed trefoil in the face. Finial over. Plank door with strap-hinges, C19. Inscriptions: carved in stone and framing the left hand window: "Shew Me Thy Ways O Lord" and "Teach Me Thy Paths".

This description is derived from the associated designation record, the validity of which has not been checked.

GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.

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Aug 22 2024 2:40PM