Description

OBORNE
ST 61 NE OBORNE VILLAGE
6/86 Schoolhouse
11.7.51
GV II
Former Schoolhouse, originally built as parsonage. Converted to residential
use. Early C17, with C19 alterations. Rubble-stone walls, with dressed
stone quoins. Plain clay-tile roof with stone gable-copings. Brick stack
at north gable. Two storeys. Four windows, ground floor: three, four,
(door) three-lights. First floor: three, four, two, three-lights. Hollow-
chamfered Ham stone mullions, with mainly fixed lozenge-leaded lights, some
iron casements with lights. Separate returned labels to ground floor.
Front door, right of centre, plank-and-muntin, C20. Dressed stone voussoirs
over. The south gable-end wall has a 3-light mullion and transom window
with separate label over, C19. Fixed windows and an iron casement at top
centre with a fixed-horizontal glazing-bar. The late C19 extension at
south-west corner has brick-dressed walls. Two-light stone mullion window
to lane, and brick-dressed window to rear. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 176(7)).

Listing NGR: ST6547818497

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609558

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