Burnley Curruculum Development Centre

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BURNLEY

SD83SW TODMORDEN ROAD, Burnley Wood 906-1/3/171 (West side) 29/09/77 No.71 Burnley Curriculum Development Centre

GV II

Villa, now education centre. Early to mid C19; altered. Chisel-dressed squared sandstone, slate roofs on 2 levels. L-plan formed by a double-depth double-fronted main block with a double-pile service wing attached at the rear right-hand corner. The main range is 2 storeys and 3 windows, symmetrical, with a plinth, raised quoins, moulded gutter cornice and coped gables; the central doorway has an architrave of engaged Tuscan columns with a plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a panelled door with overlight; the windows are 4-pane unhorned sashes with plain surrounds. Gable chimneys. The right-hand gable wall has a tall round-headed stair window with Y-tracery. The set-back service wing, 2 lower storeys with a 2-window front, has a doorway to the left with plain surround, panelled door and overlight with diagonal glazing bars, a 12-pane sashed window above this, a small window to the right of the door and one blind window on each floor to the right; its right-hand return side has 2 gables and 4 windows. The rear of the main range has (inter alia) an unusual parapet with blind windows suggesting an attic storey. INTERIOR: entrance hall and passage floored with encaustic tiles in buff, brown, blue and white geometric patterns; doglegged staircase with slender cast-iron balusters; otherwise, altered. Forms a group with No.73 (qv) and No.75 (qv).





Listing NGR: SD8483832003

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1966 IOE Records taken by Peter J Sturtivant; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter J. Sturtivant. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project