Description

ILMINSTER

ST3414 SILVER STREET 1939-1/6/114 (South side) 29/07/76 Greenfylde School

GV II

School. Dated 1878. Rough Ham Hill stone ashlar and rusticated blue lias stone bands, with crested slate roof. Shallow U-shape plan with long rear range to the right, backing onto Wharf Lane. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: Single storey. 2 stepped-forward gables flank the facade. The left gable has paired 2-light windows with mullions and transoms, pointed trefoil heads to each light and plain quatrefoil lights to the tops, under hoodmoulds with foliate stops; a pierced cross in apex of the gable. The gable to the right has one 3-light window with pointed trefoil heads below a similar hoodmould and a plain slit window in the apex. The central set-back range has a planked door with elaborate strap hinges to the left; right-of-centre is a forward stack, offset, with a C20 rebuilt top; set in the stack is a decorative recessed panel with the date A.D.1878 under a hoodmould; flanking the chimney are pairs of 2-light windows similar to the others but without hoodmoulds. A plinth and a string course, at sill level with head-stops flanking the door, span the whole facade. The left wing and the centre have rough bands of blue lias. Set diagonally, close to the south-west angle of the ridge, is a belfry; it has a slate-hung base, turned corner pillars with louvres between and a steep slate pyramidal roof topped by a wrought-iron finial; this has 4 drooping leaves to the base, a ball to the centre with a crown above and a smaller ball to the top. The rear elevation reflects the front, with a left-of-centre gable which has an elaborate wrought-iron finial. The long rear wing, to the west, in similar style with 2-light cross-windows and gabled porches to the side, Decorated-style gable end window and 3 ornamental vents to the ridge. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: the school was built to replace the original one in Court Barton (qv) which then became Ilminster Girls' Grammar School. A robust and richly detailed example of a Gothic Revival school.

Listing NGR: ST3597514455

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