Description

ILMINSTER

ST3614 NORTH STREET
1939-1/7/89 (East side)
29/07/76 North Street School and attached
walls and railings

GV II

School. Dated 1853. Rough Ham Hill stone ashlar to the front,
limestone rubble and brick to the rear, slate roof with brick
stacks to the rear building.
EXTERIOR: the North Street front, facing west, is
single-storey; symmetrical 3-window range in Domestic
Tudor/Gothic style. To the central main block are 3-light
mullioned and transomed windows with cast-iron frames and
small panes: cornice, and a parapet inscribed " National Daily
and Sunday Schools, erected by Voluntary Subscription A D
1853"; and to the centre of this is a bellcote with an offset
gable and an obelisk finial. Flanked by Gothic-style
diagonally-planked door with ornamental strap hinges, and
moulded segmental-arched architraves. These are set in gabled
walls screening a single-storey lean-to to the left, and a
gabled wing to the right.
To the rear is a large limestone rubble building with a
circular louvre in gable facing west. The east-facing gable
with larger circular louvre is entered by a brick staircase to
a first-floor door, flanked by 3-light mullioned and transomed
windows. The right return is 2 storeys; of 4-window range: the
first floor has paired 4/4-pane sashes with thick wooden
lintels and brick surrounds; the ground floor has two 3-light
mullioned and transomed windows with a taller 4-light,
2-transom one to the left and a door to the right. The first
floor of the left return has 3 paired 4/4-pane sashes with
wooden lintels and a single 4/4 one to the right. The ground
floor has 6/6-pane horned sashes and one 3-light mullioned and
transomed window to left of centre.
INTERIOR: typical of a mid C19 school, with tongue-and-groove
panelling to the lower part of the walls.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The forecourt is enclosed by a low Ham
Hill stone wall stepped down to the contour of the hill; the
piers have pyramidal tops, the railings are wide-spaced
long/short spearhead. Substantial stone steps flanked by low
walls lead to each door, and the rear building is enclosed by
a high rubblestone wall.

Listing NGR: ST3612414622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581157

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