Highfield Infants School
HIGHFIELD INFANTS SCHOOL, WELLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087936
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield Infants School
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHFIELD INFANTS SCHOOL, WELLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087936
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield Infants School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHFIELD INFANTS SCHOOL, WELLINGTON STREET
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:
- HIGHFIELD INFANTS SCHOOL, WELLINGTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 48287 34743
Details
PARISH OF LONG EATON WELLINGTON STREET SK 43 SE 4/49 (West Side) Highfield Infants School GV II
School. 1911 by G H Widdows (Derbyshire County Council architect). Brown brick, pebbledashed over sill height, with stone and tile dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roofs with wide overhanging eaves and vented brick ridge and side wall stacks. All gables are about 3 feet narrower than the walls below and have tiled dentilled eaves. Single storey, with attics in parts. Three ranges with transverse passages between them. East front has a central gabled bay with attics, flanked by large brick external stacks and lower wings to sides. Central segment headed arch has stone impost blocks and double keystone with radiating tiles between. Behind is a plain plank door and to either side there are 2-light casements. Beyond to either side there are two 3-light small pane casements with low transomes. Above, in the centre bay, is another 3-light window which has a blind semi-circular recess over with stone keyblock. To either side it has lower single casement windows, and large hopper heads. To the top of the gable there are three small louvred vents. West elevation is similar. Three gable ends to north and south elevations, each have a central blind segment headed recess with stone keyblock and three casement windows within. To either side of the gable the flanking pieces have three vertical stone bands. Between the gable bays, the transverse corridors each have three pairs of double, glazed doors behind an open arcade of plain wooden posts with curved braces to top. Above there are three roof dormers each with a 3-light casement window. All fenestration small pane casements. Built as part of a group with Highfield Junior School. Widdows was an exponent of advanced ideas on school planning and ventilation.
Listing NGR: SK4828734743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82234
- 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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