Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 SILVER STREET
1011-1/6/123 (North East side)
06/01/83 Former school building immediately
north-east of The Old Vicarage
(Formerly Listed as:
SILVER STREET
Former school building immediately
to N of vicarage)

GV II

Schoolroom, partly used as garage, partly disused. Probably
c1820s with later alterations. Rendered slatestone rubble;
secondary concrete tile roof, gabled at ends; stack with
dismantled shaft. Plan: sited immediately NE of The Old
Vicarage (qv). Rectangular 2-storey block, roofed on a NW/SE
axis. Ground-floor room heated by lateral stack on the NW side
towards the N end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The SW side, facing
the vicarage, has altered openings: garage doors to the left,
doorway alongside to the right, blocked window to the right
hand, with brick arch. 2 blocked first-floor windows with
brick arches. The NW end has a platband below the gable and
tall round-headed recess with a C20 ground floor window. Tall
round-headed first-floor 16-pane sash with cast-iron glazing
bars and spider's web glazing in the head. Blind rectangular
recess in gable. SE end not seen externally but retains the
spider's web glazing of a window that may have matched that on
the NE end. INTERIOR: fireplace with semi-circular stone arch
to the left on the NE wall. Later fireplace, perhaps for
copper in the centre, tall round-headed recess to the right.
Cross beams with sunk ovolo mouldings. First floor also has
round-headed recesses to the walls.

Listing NGR: SX7356966365

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512802

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)