Holy Trinity School
HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072495
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity School
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072495
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL, PRESTON ROAD
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.
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:
- HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hoghton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 61564 25912
Details
HOGHTON PRESTON ROAD SD 62 NW 2/146 Holy Trinity School - GV II
School, now house. 1838 rebuilding of school founded by Sir Charles Hoghton in 1709; enlarged 1873; altered. Coursed sandstone, slate roof. Three bays and 2 storeys with large single-storey wing on each side. Tudor style; 1st floor band, buttresses (diagonal at the corners), recessed mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hoodmoulds: in each bay one 5-light window at ground floor and two 2-light windows above; at north gable a gabled 2-storey porch with moulded arched doorway and a carved stone tablet above showing a bull and a griffon. On east side the single storey wing has a prominent side-wall chimney stack with offsets and coupled octagonal flues with moulded caps, a 2-light window to the right of this, and in the gable wall a very large 5-light mullioned window, a single-light opening in the apex; in the angle is a lean-to porch to the main range with a moulded Tudor-arched doorway, a window in the side wall, one window to the left and 2 above, like those at front. All gables have stone coping with kneelers and apex finials. (Re-located datestone in garden wall states that wing was added 1873 by Sir H de H). Included for group value with Church of the Holy Trinity on opposite side of road.
Listing NGR: SD6156425912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184400
- 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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