Listed Building record MDO30688 - Carrington Building, Sherborne School, Sherborne

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Summary

A classroom building designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and built 1909-10, incorporating a former industrial building of nineteenth-century date, thought to have been a button factory. An extension was added in 1936. The walls are built in ashlar and the building has a tiled roof.

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Classroom building at public school. 1909-10; by Sir Reginald Blomfield ; C19 and 1936 ranges at rear. Ashlar. Plain tile roof with shaped gables. PLAN: H-shaped on plan main range with short flanking wings, and wing at rear right [NW] attached to C19 former industrial building [said to have been a button factory] with 1936 extension , forming small rear courtyard. Wrenaissance style. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Central 8-bay range and projecting flanking 2-storey 2-bay wings with pairs of shaped gables with ball-finials, giant pilasters and tall sash windows with broken segmental pediments above; central eight bays with weathered buttresses alternating with tall 18-pane sashes in plain architraves with keyblocks and string and panel above; doorways to left and right with eared architraves with inscribed panel and open pediment with festooned cartouches above; deep eaves and large pedimented dormers with cross-mullion-transom windows, the left and right with segmental pediments and oculi; over the centre a wooden cupola surmounted by a weather-vane. 2-bay south side; north side 3-light sashes to left with festoons above and three shaped gables in wing to right with Venetian windows. 3-bay arcade facing rear courtyard. Former button factory at rear with cast-iron windows and 1936 extension with dated arms in gable end. INTERIOR: Two staircases with iron balustrades, the north with neo-Classical plaster equestrian frieze on wall of stair well. Eared doorway architraves. First floor hall with exposed round arches to roof. SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.379. Listing NGR: ST6368816540 Type and date: 1909-1910 CLASSROOM. Date: from 1909 to 1910 Type and date: 1909-1910 PUBLIC SCHOOL. Date: from 1909 to 1910 Type and date: 1936 PUBLIC SCHOOL. Date: 1936 Type and date: 1936 CLASSROOM. Date: 1936 Main material: ashlar Covering material: tile

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Grid reference ST 6368 1654 (point)
Map sheet ST61NW
Civil Parish Sherborne; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Jun 12 2014 4:56PM

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