Listed Building record MDO30688 - Carrington Building, Sherborne School, Sherborne

A classroom building designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and built 1909-10, incorporating a former industrial building of nineteenth-century date, thought to have been a button factory. An extension was added in 1936. The walls are built in ashlar and the building has a tiled roof.

Classroom building at public school. 1909-10; by Sir Reginald Blomfield ; C19 and 1936 ranges at rear. Ashlar. Plain tile roof with shaped gables.
PLAN: H-shaped on plan main range with short flanking wings, and wing at rear right [NW] attached to C19 former industrial building [said to have been a button factory] with 1936 extension , forming small rear courtyard. Wrenaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Central 8-bay range and projecting flanking 2-storey 2-bay wings with pairs of shaped gables with ball-finials, giant pilasters and tall sash windows with broken segmental pediments above; central eight bays with weathered buttresses alternating with tall 18-pane sashes in plain architraves with keyblocks and string and panel above; doorways to left and right with eared architraves with inscribed panel and open pediment with festooned cartouches above; deep eaves and large pedimented dormers with cross-mullion-transom windows, the left and right with segmental pediments and oculi; over the centre a wooden cupola surmounted by a weather-vane. 2-bay south side; north side 3-light sashes to left with festoons above and three shaped gables in wing to right with Venetian windows. 3-bay arcade facing rear courtyard. Former button factory at rear with cast-iron windows and 1936 extension with dated arms in gable end.
INTERIOR: Two staircases with iron balustrades, the north with neo-Classical plaster equestrian frieze on wall of stair well. Eared doorway architraves. First floor hall with exposed round arches to roof.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.379.
Listing NGR: ST6368816540

Type and date: 1909-1910 CLASSROOM. Date: from 1909 to 1910
Type and date: 1909-1910 PUBLIC SCHOOL. Date: from 1909 to 1910
Type and date: 1936 PUBLIC SCHOOL. Date: 1936
Type and date: 1936 CLASSROOM. Date: 1936
Main material: ashlar
Covering material: tile

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

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Aug 23 2024 1:10PM