Listed Building: ST PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL (412578)

POOLE SZ0391 PARR STREET, Parkstone 958-1/14/247 (West side) 30/06/80 St Peter's Primary School GV II Primary school. Dated 1833, extended to rear in later C19. Rendered cob with slate hipped roof. Rectangular plan with later C19 rear extensions. Simple composition with Gothick details. Single-storey; 3-window range. 4-centre-arched openings with a left-hand doorway, with bottom-hinged overlight over mid C20 door, and early C19 wooden windows with Y mullions; former right-hand end porch with crenellated parapet over segmental-arched late C20 plank door, an original matching porch to left having been altered leaving front wall with segmental-arched doorway only. Left-hand return has similar 2-light window and right-hand return has early C19 small-paned (4x4) casement. Later C19 rear left wings of brick with hipped and gabled slate roofs; mid C20 flat-roofed rear right wing. INTERIOR plain, but retains semicircular arch framing Y-tracery window over former doorway to rear right. An unusual example of a school building with cob walls, built under the patronage of prominent local families. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 239). Listing NGR: SZ0336691582

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