Description

WARMINSTER NORTH ROW
1.
5411
(East Side)
Former Girls' British
School
ST 8745 SW 6/267

II GV

2.
Originally the "Old Meeting". Built 1704, altered 1872 into girls school.
An excellent plain building close in style to Lord Weymouth's School in Church
Street (qv). 2 storeys, red brick on coursed and squared rubble base. Stone
quoins and dressings to 2 light stone mullion windows. M-section hipped old
tile roof with sprocket eaves. Band over ground floor. 5 windows on 1st
floor, 4 on ground floor with brick flat arches. Projecting central gabled
porch (circa 1872) with moulded footstones to coped verge and moulded entrance
with 4 centred arch. 2 large cross stone mullions and transom windows to
east and a blocked doorway. Roof supported by 2 polygonal timber columns
of massive scantling. Dwarf wall in front with spearhead railings (circa
1872) the standards having 4 quills to caps.

Listing NGR: ST8743845161

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489038

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