Custos Lodge At Sherborne School

ABBEY ROAD 1. 1625 (South East Side) Custos Lodge at Sherborne School SP 6316 1/281 II GV Eo 1853. Architects: R C Carpenter and W H Slater, probably. South front to Quadrangle of 1 storey and attic. Plain-tile roof with stone coping and kneelers; stone walls, ashlar quoins. To right hand above, 2-light mullioned window with gable over each light with four-centred head, and carved spandrels. To left hand above, small projecting corbelled chimney stack with small single-light cusp-headed window to right hand. On ground floor at right hand end a 2-centred stone doorway, moulded; door with cover strips and elaborate hinges; to left hand again, a 3-light window and a single light window, each light with four-centred head. In west gable end, a two-light window above and below; four-centred heads to lights; dripmoulds. Entrance to Custos Lodge through the adjoining Tower [See Sherborne School, North Block].

The following buildings of Sherborne School surround the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary and form a group with themselves and with the Abbey Church of St Mary.

Listing NGR: ST6377416593