Description

CREWKERNE

ST4409 MOUNT PLEASANT
876-1/7/132 (North side)
06/09/74 DeCombe House
(Formerly Listed as:
MOUNT PLEASANT
Grammar School)

II

Former grammar school, now apartments. 1876-82, by Giles and
Gough. MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble, Ham Hill stone
quoins and dressings, slate roof.
EXTERIOR: mostly 3 storeys; 8-window range. To the far right
is a projecting 2-storeyed forward-facing gable with a
crenellated finial to the moulded coping and set-back, offset
buttresses. It has Perpendicular-style tracery to a
pointed-arched, 5-light, stone mullioned window with
cinquefoil heads to each 4-paned light; a panelled band
between floors, and pointed-arched 5-light stone-mullioned
windows with sunk spandrels to the ground floor.
The main facade has mostly 3-light, chamfered stone-mullioned
and transomed windows to first and second floors, gabled
half-dormers to the second floor and 4-light stone mullioned
windows to the ground floor, some with pointed arches and sunk
spandrels. To the right-of centre buttresses flank steps up to
double doors, each 6 panels, set in a high Tudor arch with
glazed overlight; a hoodmould with foliate stops includes a
panel with a shield and inscription above the arch, and
shields in the spandrels. A canted bay with a hipped slate
roof to the far left where the ground slopes down is 3
storeys; a castellated canted bay to left-of-centre is 2
storeys.
INTERIOR: glazed inner doors have chamfered frames, the floor
to the large hall is polychromatic, the wide open-well
staircase extending through 3 floors has stone treads, scroll
balusters and cast-iron newel; the skirting is also stone.
HISTORY: named The Mount Pleasant School in 1880, it acquired
a gymnasium in 1884 and a swimming bath in 1888.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset:
London: 1958-: P.137-9; Kelly's Directory: 1902-).

Listing NGR: ST4470709946

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503578

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)