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Latitude: 50.5315 / 50°31'53"N
Longitude: -3.6149 / 3°36'53"W
OS Eastings: 285643
OS Northings: 71441
OS Grid: SX856714
Mapcode National: GBR QR.5T3G
Mapcode Global: FRA 379N.KHS
Plus Code: 9C2RG9JP+J3
Entry Name: Former Church of England Primary School Attached Wall Piers and Railings
Listing Date: 5 December 1986
Last Amended: 11 December 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256943
English Heritage Legacy ID: 464407
ID on this website: 101256943
Location: Abbotsbury, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ12
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge
Civil Parish: Newton Abbot
Built-Up Area: Newton Abbot
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Highweek All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: School building
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8571SE HIGHWEEK STREET
1012-1/13/87 (North side)
05/12/86 Former Church of England Primary
School, attached wall, piers and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGHWEEK STREET
Church of England Primary School,
with wall and railings)
GV II
School, now housing. Probably c1870 by J Rowell.
MATERIALS: coursed, squared and snecked rubble with freestone
dressings, slate roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN AND EXTERIOR: a near-symmetrical building with a brick
stack to a low central gable with wavey bargeboards flanked by
slightly-projecting full-height coped gables to long rear
wings forming a reversed 'U'plan; similar small porch gables
flank these wings: the whole is attached on the right to the
chapel of St Mary (qv) by a crenellated wall with a granite
arch, probably C14.
Each gable has shallow pointed arches to C20 windows beneath
(left) a trefoil opening in the gable and (right) a similar
opening below a bellcote, without bell.
To the far left and right the small gabled porches have
planked doors in shouldered openings under blind panels with
trefoil heads. Plinth, coped verges, brick stack over central
gablet, which has cusped bargeboards over similar
segmental-pointed window and right-hand pointed-arched door; 2
further stacks at eaves in lateral angles to rear courtyard;
ventilator to left ridge.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX8564371440
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