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Former County Primary School

A Grade II Listed Building in Milborne Port, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.966 / 50°57'57"N

Longitude: -2.4662 / 2°27'58"W

OS Eastings: 367355

OS Northings: 118616

OS Grid: ST673186

Mapcode National: GBR MX.MDYX

Mapcode Global: FRA 56QK.910

Plus Code: 9C2VXG8M+CG

Entry Name: Former County Primary School

Listing Date: 20 October 1981

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1056321

English Heritage Legacy ID: 261869

ID on this website: 101056321

Location: Milborne Port, Somerset, DT9

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: Milborne Port

Built-Up Area: Milborne Port

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


ST6718 MILBORNE PORT CP GAINSBOROUGH (East side)

12/133 Former County Primary School

20.10.81

II

School, now video film library. Late C19. Ham stone squared and boasted, with Bath stone ashlar dressings; plain clay
tile roof with bands of fish scale between coped gables with finials. I-plan, one storey; South elevation of 5 bays, of
which bays 1 and 5 have projecting gables, which are linked by a flat roofed colonnade having 5 pointed arches without
labels on squat Norman style circular columns with varied carved capitals. To bays 1 and 5 are 5-light chamfer
mullioned and transomed windows with square labels, under small rectangular gable vents: middle bays have quasi-dormers
above the colonnade with 2-and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, all under square labels. Rear elevation
similar, but with outshut in place of colonnade; slim lancet windows to bays 2 and 4; in bay 3 a pointed arch doorway
in the base of a 5 stage tower; having small quatrefoil in diamond lights to stage 2, single cusped light stage 3,
ashlar to stage 4 with clock faces North and South under an apron, a wood open bell turret and steep pitched spirelet
with weathervane. Henry Hall designed the church school in 1864. If this is it, it was very advanced in design for the
date. (EDB Guide to the Parish Church, 1971).


Listing NGR: ST6735518616

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