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© Mr Michael Perry
IoE Number:
263932
Location:
THE OLD SCHOOL, AND BOUNDARY RAILINGS TO NORTH AND WEST, CHURCH STREET (south side)
DONYATT, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Michael Perry
Date Photographed:
25 April 2003
Date listed:
29 October 1987
Date of last amendment:
29 October 1987
Grade
II
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DONYATT CP CHURCH STREET (South side)
ST31SW
4/49 The Old School, and boundary
railings to north and west
-
GV II
Former school, now private house. Dated 1871. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof with
fish-scale bands and ornamental ridge tiles, gabled with bargeboards and spike finials; stone chimney stack. 'T'-plan;
single storey, north elevation of 4 bays, of which bay 4 is the projecting end gable of a western crosswing. Plinth;
chamfer- mullioned windows of 3 lights, with shoulder-arched lights bays 1 and 2, and trefoil cusped to bay 4, this
last set under relieving arch into the tall gable, with a trefoil vent over; to bay 3 a matching pitched roof porch
with chamfered pointed outer and inner arches, boarded door inside, datestone in gable. West elevation of 3 bays to
match, the outer bays having single cusped lancets, bay 2 a projecting lower gable with 2-light plate-traceried window
with label and rectangular vent over. C20 extension to rear. Interior not seen, but apparently little altered. About 4
metres from building, to both north and west, a low stone wall with angled coping and piers at about 3 metre intervals,
and 2 rows square section iron rods set diagonally, with Gothic style cast iron intermediate posts; corner curved, with
a recess in which stands the remains of a C19 water hydrant; gateway opposite porch on north side, gate missing; the
whole adding to the setting of the building, and to the streetscene at a prominent point in the centre of the village.