St Vedasts School For Boys, Sarum Chase

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TQ2586SE WEST HEATH ROAD 798-1/15/1710 (South side) 14/05/74 St Vedast's School for Boys, Sarum Chase (Formerly Listed as: WEST HEATH ROAD Sarum Chase)

GV II

Private house, now a school. c1932. By Vyvyan Salisbury for his uncle the painter and stained glass artist Frank Salisbury; alterations, 1963. Brown brick with stone dressings; range to left of entrance, black and white timber framed. Hipped slated roofs with dormers, brick "Tudor" chimneys and gargoyles. EXTERIOR: mainly 2 storeys and attics. Irregular facade in elaborate medieval pastiche. Asymmetrically set, projecting, gabled entrance bay with ground floor projecting porch flanked by curved walls, with mullion windows, forming a shallow forecourt. Porch has a 4-centred arch entrance flanked by small vertically set windows with hood moulds; double heavy timber doors. Plaque over doorway inscribed "Strength, beauty and valour". Above the porch, a tall transom and mullion oriel window. To right at 1st floor level a gable with small oriel having penthouse roof. To left, 2 timber-framed, gabled dormers and a range of lights all with leaded diamond panes in overhanging 1st floor; ground floor of this range with 8-light projecting transom and mullion window. Left hand projecting brick wing with full height 5-light oriel window and, to right a single storey entrance range across the front of the timber-framed bay and joining the curved forecourt wall; 4-centred arch entrance and transom and mullion windows. Some stained glass in various windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2559086380