Listed Building record MDO14068 - Strangways Hall, Market Street, Abbotsbury

Village School, now Village Hall. Dated AD 1858 on left hand gable. Abbotsbury and Portesham stone walls, banded. Buttresses with set-offs and aedicules framing the doorways. Plain slate and fish-scale slate roofs, with 2 gables of different sizes to front, the larger at left hand, and a gable-end at right hand.

Village School, now Village Hall. Dated AD 1858 on left hand gable. Abbotsbury and Portesham stone walls, banded. Buttresses with set-offs and aedicules framing the doorways. Plain slate and fish-scale slate roofs, with 2 gables of different sizes to front, the larger at left hand, and a gable-end at right hand. Stone- coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Single storey. 4 bays, irregular. Windows, front left hand: 5-light stone mullion with 4-centred heads, 3-light over this and 3 graduated top lights under stilted segmental-pointed heads. Label over stopped. C19 metal casements. Openwork quatrefoil in head of gable. Door with 4-centred head, plank with strap-hinges. Stone framing and 4 lights framing it (bay 2). Bay 3, gabled window of similar design to bay 1, though with 2-centred label over and 2 carved coats-of-arms with pinnacled heads over. Bay 4, door of similar design to bay 2, with 3-rectangular lights over the doorhead. Attached wall for 3 metres at right hand, rubble-stone with central doorway having dressed stone jambs and depressed-arch head. Gabled head projecting above the wall with a cusped pointed trefoil in the face. Finial over. Plank door with strap-hinges, C19. Inscriptions: carved in stone and framing the left hand window: "Shew Me Thy Ways O Lord" and "Teach Me Thy Paths". This description is derived from the associated designation record, the validity of which has not been checked.

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Dec 15 2008 10:53AM