Sompting Abbotts is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. A Victorian School. 1 related planning application.
Sompting Abbotts
- WRENN ID
- fossil-sandstone-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- School
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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TQ 10 NE 2/29
SOMPTING CHURCH LANE Sompting Abbotts
II Now a boys' school. Built in 1856. Architect P C Hardwick. Tudor style. L-shaped building. Two storeys and attic. Six windows and two dormers in the main block. Faced with flints with stone dressings and quoins and some portions of red brick. Very steep slate roof. Casement windows with stone mullions and transoms.
The south front of the main block has a non-central bay of red brick containing a window of three central lights and two flanking lights. Gable to the east of this and two spiky steep dormers to the west. Bartizan of five-lights on the first floor of the south west angle. Service wing of lower height forming an L to the north east. This has two windows and an octagonal turret higher than the wing itself.
The entrance front has a large square tower of red brick and five storeys projecting beyond the front. Round-turret projecting from this from the second floor upwards. Steep roof crowned by an ornamental octagonal iron railing. Elaborate red brick and stone doorway with side lights and castellated parapet to the west of the tower.
Listing NGR: TQ1628205743
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