Listed Building: COURT HOUSE, CANFORD SCHOOL (412432)

POOLE SZ0398 CANFORD MAGNA, Canford Magna 958-1/9/220 (East side) 30/06/80 Court House, Canford School (Formerly Listed as: MAGNA ROAD (East side) Court House) GV II House. Late C17, N wing rebuilt late C19-early C20 to match existing, linking section added 1914. Brick with Ham Hill dressings and diaper pattern glazed headers, to both C17 and C19 wings, moulded gable stacks with a cross-gabled tiled roof. Single-depth 3-room plan C17 range with 2 SW cross gables, SW range with cross gables, and 1914 central linking section in Jacobean style. 2 storeys; 2-window C17 range, 1:2-window right-hand section. Coped C17 gable has a moulded plinth, irregular quoins, voussoirs and dressings, a right-hand doorway inserted into former window has a C20 door, and paired windows with thin stone mullions to chamfered C17 architraves, 1 with plate-glass casements to the ground floor and 2 above with plate-glass sashes, with two 2/2-pane attic sashes. Left-hand 3-window return has late C19-early C20 sashes in enlarged rendered openings, the entrance to the centre from a mid C20 block (not included). C19 ranges have cross gables with gable stacks and a regular pattern of diaper brickwork, similar mullion windows to the C17 gable, with a gabled half dormer in the central front section which has rainwater hoppers dated 1914. INTERIOR altered in C20 remodelling, with an entrance hall with C20 stair with stick balusters. Only the NE wing survives from a larger building of the C17, distinguished by an early use of brickwork for the area. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 240). Listing NGR: SZ0328898257

Record last edited

Mar 31 2011 3:52AM