Description

SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY MARKET STREET, EAST SIDE

10/47 Stangways Hall

GV II

Village School, now Village Hall. Dated AD 1858 on left hand gable. Abbotsbury
and Portesham stone walls, banded. Buttresses with set-offs and aedicules framing
the doorways. Plain slate and fish-scale slate roofs, with 2 gables of different
sizes to front, the larger at left hand, and a gable-end at right hand. Stone-
coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Single storey. 4 bays, irregular.
Windows, front left hand: 5-light stone mullion with 4-centred heads, 3-light
over this and 3 graduated top lights under stilted segmental-pointed heads. Label
over stopped. C19 metal casements. Openwork quatrefoil in head of gable. Door
with 4-centred head, plank with strap-hinges. Stone framing and 4 lights framing
it (bay 2). Bay 3, gabled window of similar design to bay 1, though with 2-centred
label over and 2 carved coats-of-arms with pinnacled heads over. Bay 4, door of
similar design to bay 2, with 3-rectangular lights over the doorhead. Attached
wall for 3 metres at right hand, rubble-stone with central doorway having dressed
stone jambs and depressed-arch head. Gabled head projecting above the wall with
a cusped pointed trefoil in the face. Finial over. Plank door with strap-hinges,
C19. Inscriptions: carved in stone and framing the left hand window: "Shew Me
Thy Ways O Lord" and "Teach Me Thy Paths".

Listing NGR: SY5765385387

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609839

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)