Old Grammar School Amesbury, England
Listed Building Data
Old Grammar School has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1284503
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 10 October 1988
- Name
- OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
- Location
- OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 32, HIGH STREET
- Parish
- Amesbury
- District
- Wiltshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 15448 41553
- Easting
- 415447.9040
- Northing
- 141552.9410
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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
