ASSEMBLY ROOMS

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, FRIARS WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038725
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1979
List Entry Name:: ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Statutory Address:: ASSEMBLY ROOMS, FRIARS WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038725
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1979
List Entry Name:: ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Statutory Address 1:: ASSEMBLY ROOMS, FRIARS WALK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ASSEMBLY ROOMS, FRIARS WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Burton
National Grid Reference:: SK 25092 22784

Details

SK 2522 NW BURTON UPON TRENT FRIAR'S WALK

944/3/56 Assembly Rooms

22.06.1979 II

Former Grammar School. Established c1537, shortly before the dissolution of the Abbey, with which it was associated. The school occupied a building on the present site before 1757, which may have been late C16 and may have incorporated earlier fabric. This building was extended and reconstructed in 1834. The Grammar School moved to other premises in 1877, and the building became assembly rooms. It was comprehensively restored and extended in 1959-61 by Armstrong & Falgate. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs without stacks. Plinth, dentillated eaves, and shouldered coped gables. Windows are mainly C19 stone mullioned casements, some renewed in concrete, 1959. 2 storeys. 1:3:1 bays. Central square ashlar porch, probably C16, with Tudor arched opening converted c1959 to a 3-light mullioned window, with an inscribed tablet. On either side, 3-light windows linked by a moulded string course. Above, three 3-light windows, that in the centre with a label mould. In the central gable, a datestone inscribed "1834". Projecting gabled end bays have Tudor arched openings, that to left with C19 double doors and overlight, that to right with a 3-light window. Above, 2-light windows with label moulds. To left, an addition, c1959, 2 storeys, with a shallow full-width mullioned window under a string course, and blank upper floor. At the rear, extensive additions, 1959, single storey, and a flat roofed stair enclosure. On the ground floor, C19 door and mullioned window, and a C19 cast iron glazing bar casement. Above, 2 larger cast iron casements. INTERIOR: Entrance hall has concrete open well staircase, 1959. Ground floor has to north a stone wall, rendered C20, with plinth and splayed window opening converted to a cupboard. . Two blocked corner fireplaces. Late C20 partitions and fittings. First floor hall has two blocked fireplaces on the rear wall. Exposed king post truss roof with struts and double purlins. Sources: Radford, GE. Deus Nobiscum: a history of Burton Grammar School 1973. Meeson, R. Time and Place: medieval carpentry in Staffordshire 1994.

Listing NGR: SK2509222784

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Legacy System number:: 272957
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Meeson, R , Time and Place: Medieval Carpentry in Staffordshire, (1994)
Radford, G E , Deus Nobiscum A History of Burton Grammar School, (1973)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.