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Former Girls' British School

A Grade II Listed Building in Warminster, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2055 / 51°12'19"N

Longitude: -2.1812 / 2°10'52"W

OS Eastings: 387438

OS Northings: 145161

OS Grid: ST874451

Mapcode National: GBR 1V6.7CW

Mapcode Global: VH97H.4YRQ

Plus Code: 9C3V6R49+6G

Entry Name: Former Girls' British School

Listing Date: 31 March 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1194413

English Heritage Legacy ID: 312971

ID on this website: 101194413

Location: Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Warminster

Built-Up Area: Warminster

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Warminster St Denys

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


WARMINSTER NORTH ROW
1.
5411
(East Side)
Former Girls' British
School
ST 8745 SW 6/267

II GV


2.
Originally the "Old Meeting". Built 1704, altered 1872 into girls school.
An excellent plain building close in style to Lord Weymouth's School in Church
Street (qv). 2 storeys, red brick on coursed and squared rubble base. Stone
quoins and dressings to 2 light stone mullion windows. M-section hipped old
tile roof with sprocket eaves. Band over ground floor. 5 windows on 1st
floor, 4 on ground floor with brick flat arches. Projecting central gabled
porch (circa 1872) with moulded footstones to coped verge and moulded entrance
with 4 centred arch. 2 large cross stone mullions and transom windows to
east and a blocked doorway. Roof supported by 2 polygonal timber columns
of massive scantling. Dwarf wall in front with spearhead railings (circa
1872) the standards having 4 quills to caps.


Listing NGR: ST8743845161

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