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Latitude: 50.9933 / 50°59'35"N
Longitude: -1.753 / 1°45'10"W
OS Eastings: 417427
OS Northings: 121576
OS Grid: SU174215
Mapcode National: GBR 528.MM1
Mapcode Global: FRA 766H.BVJ
Plus Code: 9C2WX6VW+8Q
Entry Name: Downton Church of England (Controlled) Primary School
Listing Date: 4 July 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1023886
English Heritage Legacy ID: 319630
ID on this website: 101023886
Location: Downton, Wiltshire, SP5
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Downton
Built-Up Area: Downton
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Downton St Lawrence
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: School building
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DOWNTON
GRAVEL CLOSE
(west side)
Downton C of E (Controlled) Primary School
II
Board school, now primary school. 1895. Flemish bond brick with
limestone dressings, tiled roof, brick stacks. E-plan. Single
storey, ten windows. Projecting gable to left of centre has
elliptical-arched doorway with 2-light mullioned window over, to
left is 3-light mullioned and transomed window in Tudor-arched
opening with traceried panel over in gable, with date 1895. To
left and right are groups of sashes with pivot windows; the centre
of each group has hipped gablet over. To right is projecting gable
with groups of sashes with stone mullions and transoms. Stepped
eaves course, saddleback coping to gables. Lead and cast-iron
cylindrical vents to ridge of roof have conical cappings, brick
stacks have good decorated pots. Octagonal limestone belfry over
front door has traceried and chamfered openings and ogee roof with
weathervane. Left and right returns have similar groups of
sashes, with stone mullions and transoms to left return. To rear
are three gabled wings with groups of tall sashes and pivot-
windows, all with cambered flat arches and keystones, loop vents
over. Covered yards between the wings have corrugated-iron arched
roofs on cast-iron piers.
Interior has planked doors and glazed sliding partitions between
larger rooms. Partly exposed roof timbers on stone corbels. A
good, unaltered example of a Board School, founded after the
Elementary Education Act of 1870.
Listing NGR: SU1742721576
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