Description

ANSTEY ROAD
1.
5236
Amery Hill School
(Lower School).
Formerly listed as
Eggar's Grammar School)
SU 7240 1/1
II
2.
Formerly Eggar's Grammar School, founded in 1642 by John Eggar whose initials
in iron are in the left-hand gable. 2 storeys plus attic; 3 bays wide. Red brick;
tiled roof with central stack of 4 chimneys. Ground floor with central ledged
oak door with original knocker in heavy moulded oak frame within later porch flanked
on either side by two 5-light mullioned and transomed casement windows. Moulded
band at 1st floor level. 1st floor with central 3-light mullioned casement window
with, either side, two 5-light mullioned and transomed casement windows. A single
3-light mullioned attic window in each gable with small former window between
the 2 gables. A plain band at foot of the gables is carried down over the windows
to form a drip mould. At the back an irregular, mainly C18, addition. The left-hand
part of the building is a modern addition apeing the C17 style. VCH, Hants II,
pp 367 and 482.

Listing NGR: SP7247440066

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26386545

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)