Listed Building: THE OLD SCHOOL (107616)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1796/6/157
Date assigned 04 November 1986
Date last amended

Description

WOODLANDS SU 00 NE VERWOOD ROAD (north side) 6/157 The Old School GV II Former school, now private house. Built c1850 for the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Brick walls, tiled roof with bands of fish-scale tiling and moulded bargeboards. One brick stack left of centre. Single storey. At each end a gabled porch with C20 panelled door. 3 casements with glazing bars under depressed 4 centred arches. At right end, an extension with brick walls and similar tiled roof, has lancet windows; - this apparently used for worship before the Parish Church (qv) was built. Rear wing, - former classrooms of similar construction. Of local historic interest as one of Lord Shaftesbury's village schools - similar to the one at Hinton Martell (qv). Listing NGR: SU0502509075

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Location

Grid reference SU 0502 0907 (point)
Civil Parish Woodlands; Dorset
District (historic) East Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Nov 1 2006 5:13PM