Survey Data
Reg No
11814111
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1895 - 1905
Coordinates
289312, 219735
Date Recorded
20/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached eight-bay two-storey school, dated 1900, with two-bay two-storey lower end bay to right (south-east). Renovated and refenestrated, c.1980. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks rebuilt, c.1980. Iron vent to apex with conical capping. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Iron rainwater goods on iron brackets. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Iron bell on wrought iron bracket. Square-headed openings (including door opening to first floor to rear elevation to north-east). Stone sills. Replacement timber casement (inward opening) windows, c.1980. Replacement glazed timber panelled doors, c.1980. Set in grounds shared with Catholic church and convent to south-east. Tarmacadam grounds surrounding.
Appraisal
This school is a fine and imposing building of regular, graceful proportions that retains most of its original form and which is of social and historic interest as one of the earliest educational facilities in the locality, sponsored by the Catholic church. Refenestrated in the late twentieth century, the replacement windows have been instated alluding to the original models and serve to preserve the original character of the school. The school retains some early or original features and fittings, including a slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and an iron vent, while a wall-mounted bell on wrought iron bracket also survives intact. The school is an attractive and integral component of a self-contained group of Catholic buildings located to north of the town.