Description

ST 8614
10/119

IWERNE MINSTER
BLANDFORD ROAD (West Side)

Stable Court approximately 175m
south-east of Clayesmore School

II

Stable-court, now school laboratories and dormitories, c.1880. By
Alfred Waterhouse for Lord Wolverton. Brick with some timber-framing in
the clock-tower. Tiled roofs with asymmetrically placed brick stacks.
A pictureque, High Victorian composition. Single storey with attics,
irregular fenestration. Various casements with glazing bars, some under
segmental brick heads. Entrance arch has clock-tower over; this has
tourelle to the left and buttress with 'tumbled-in' brickwork right. Pyramidal
roof with pedimented, projecting clock. Pointed arch of 2 orders. To the
right of the range a projecting chimney which balances the composition has
its top stage missing. Projecting gable with patterned brickwork left.
Attached and at right angles is the former fire-station building. (Newman, J
and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.240).

Listing NGR: ST8649014600

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610226

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings