29, Court Barton

ILMINSTER

ST3614 COURT BARTON 1939-1/7/19 (East side) 23/09/50 No.29 (Formerly Listed as: COURT BARTON (East side) The Old Library and No.2)

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.2 Girls' Grammar School COURT BARTON. Grammar School, now a dwelling. Early C16 and late C19. Ham Hill stone ashlar facade, stack, coping and moulded kneelers to forward-facing gable; slate roof. This is the east end of the former grammar school and shares a main entrance with No.28, to the left. 2 storeys; 2-window range. All windows are mid C19 horned 6/6-pane sashes, which flank a central external stack, offset above eaves level and with 2 string courses to the top; attached to its centre is a semicircular sundial dated 1586 on the bracket. The entrance, in the set-back central block which is now No.28 (qv), has a Tudor arch with foliate spandrels below a 2-light mullioned window. INTERIOR: the oldest remaining features are wind braces in the roof and a quartered ceiling with early C16 moulded beams in the main ground-floor room. Otherwise greatly altered, and mostly of late C19 and late C20 character.

Listing NGR: ST3603814615