Description

ST 8805 HANFORD
1/46
14.10.60

Hanford School
(formerly listed as
Hanford House)
GV
II*

The address shall be amended to read

ST 81 SW HANFORD

1/46
4.10.60
Hanford School
(formerly listed as
Hanford House)

GV II*

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HANFORD
ST 81 SW
14-10-60
1/46

Hanford School (formerly listed
as Hanford House)

GV II*

Country House, now school, dated 1623 possibly commenced 1604. For Sir Robert
Seymer. Ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone-slate roofs with
symmetrically disposed square stone stacks. Courtyard plan. Courtyard was
roofed in 1873. Entrance facade symmetrical. 2 storeys with basements and
attics, 5 bays. Moulded string courses separate floors. Ground and first
floors have stone mullioned and transomed windows of 4 lights to the outer bays,
3 lights to the second bays and 2 lights to the central bay. 3 gabled dormers
each containing a 4-light stone mullioned window with a returned label. 2 storey,
pedimented centrepiece with Doric pilasters to the ground floor and Ionic pilasters
above, Central round-headed archway with rusticated surround. East front has
2-storey mullioned and transomed canted bays. Other facades have stone mullioned
and mullioned and transomed windows less symmetrically arranged.

Internally the entrance passage is lined with shell-headed niches. The internal
courtyard has a 2 storeyed porch with round headed arch flanked by Ionic columns
bearing an entablature, Over is an achievement of arms flanked by scrolled check
pieces and surmounted by a lion. Over is a mullioned and transomed 5-light
window. Similar windows to other walls of court. Courtyard has original studded
plank door and is lined with C19 panelling. East range has original dog-leg
staircase with reeded, square newels, some having vase finials and moulded heavy
handrail intersecting the string. C18 hall staircase with cut strings, moulded
and twisted balusters and moulded handrail. Various C17 and C18 chimneypieces,
notably that of the C17 in a first floor room with grotesque caryatids, aedicules
and figures of solidiers in high relief. 2 flint floor rooms have C17 geometric,
ribbed plaster ceilings with decorative arabesques etc. Various C17 and C18
doors and panelling. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p,l02-l04, no.2 Newman, J and
Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.223-225.)

Listing NGR: ST8455511132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hanford School at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15222929

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Recommended Books

• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990