Old Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1988. Private house. 1 related planning application.
Old Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- south-loft-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1988
- Type
- Private house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
AMESBURY HIGH STREET SU 1541 (south side)
11/45 No 32 (Old Grammar School)
II Rose's Charity Grammar School, now private house. Late C18. Chalkstone and brick, the front roughcast and painted. Tiled roof. Two storeys and attic, two narrow bays to front, with 3 bay rear wing. Entrance central to rear cross wing. Front has plat band and brick dentilled eaves, and 16-pane replacement sashes to ground floor, 12-paned to first floor with flush boxes and applied timber shutters. Gable stack to left and roof half hipped to right. Hipped dormer. Rear block is of chalk blocks with brick quoins. Six panelled door, 12-paned sashes and one 16-paned, and gable stack. One dormer. Interior has C18 doors on ground floor. Rear range has diminished principals to roof with one tie and clasped purlins. Joseph Addison, poet, essayist and-statesman, is said to have attended the grammar school while in the south transept of the church, before being transferred here in 1807.
Listing NGR: SU1544841553
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