Woodtop Primary School, With Forecourt Walls, Piers, Railings and Overthrow
WOODTOP PRIMARY SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AND OVERTHROW, ACCRINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022606
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Woodtop Primary School, With Forecourt Walls, Piers, Railings and Overthrow
- Statutory Address:
- WOODTOP PRIMARY SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AND OVERTHROW, ACCRINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022606
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Woodtop Primary School, With Forecourt Walls, Piers, Railings and Overthrow
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODTOP PRIMARY SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AND OVERTHROW, ACCRINGTON ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WOODTOP PRIMARY SCHOOL, WITH FORECOURT WALLS, PIERS, RAILINGS AND OVERTHROW, ACCRINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 82528 32355
Details
BURNLEY
SD83SW ACCRINGTON ROAD 906-1/3/2 (North side) 29/09/77 Woodtop Primary School, with forecourt walls, piers, railings & overthrow
II
Church of England school, with forecourt walls and gateway. 1873; altered. Snecked sandstone rubble, slate roofs with pierced crested ridge tiles (damaged). Gothic style, with steeply-pitched roofs. H-plan plus rear wing. EXTERIOR: single storey, 1:3:1 windows. The main range has a gabled porch in the angle to the right, with a 2-centred arched doorway in a segmental-pointed chamfered surround with hood-mould, and a banner over this with raised lettering "INFANTS"; three 2-light windows with cusped lights; and a skylight in the front slope of the roof. The re-entrant of the left wing has a 2-centred arched doorway with a recessed door and a hood-mould with deep returned ends and carved stops; the gables of both wings have large 2-centred arched windows, that to the left of 4 arched lights with circular and multifoil tracery and that to the right of 3 cusped lights with 3 quatrefoils in the head. The 3-window right-hand return wall of this wing has a gabled centre with a 2-centred arched 2-light window, other windows like those in the main range, and a chimney at the rear gable. Rear in similar but simpler style. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt enclosed by a low wall of sandstone rubble with chamfered coping, carrying bar railings with dog-bars, and a pair of square gate piers opposite the porch with cast-iron gates and an elliptical overthrow which has a square lamp holder at the apex.
Listing NGR: SD8252832355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466976
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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