Dunalley Street Primary School
Dunalley Street Primary School, Dunalley Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104287
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dunalley Street Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- Dunalley Street Primary School, Dunalley Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104287
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dunalley Street Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Dunalley Street Primary School, Dunalley 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:
- Dunalley Street Primary School, Dunalley Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94863 22934
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 October 2021 to remove incorrect source details and to reformat the text to current standards
SO9422NE
630-1/9/1045
CHELTENHAM
DUNALLEY STREET (west side)
Dunalley Street Primary School
II
Primary school. Designed 1857 by Henry Dangerfield, Borough Surveyor. Red brick with black engineering brick patterns and limestone ashlar dressings, also with wall and corner buttresses; stone-coped gabled Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: planned with east-west range having gable facing onto Dunalley Street and slightly lower block extending north and facing Dunalley Street with two ranges at right angles extending westwards to the rear of this block. Tudor Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: east elevation facing Dunalley Street has gable end of east-west range to south end: this has five-light transomed full-height Middle Gothic window above scrolled plaque with school's name, flanked by diaper work and surmounted by banding framing arch; the lower right-hand range has full height transomed windows set in parapeted wall breaking eaves course. Away from Dunalley Street, the left-hand (south) elevation to the main gabled range has tall segmental-arched windows in wall which similarly breaks eaves line, and the right-hand (north) elevation has two Gothic dormers, one to left altered by inserted C20 window above mid C20 porch.
INTERIOR: glazing-bar windows and matchboard partitions serve as dividers between classrooms. Roof, originally open to view, is supported on C13 Gothic-style naturalistic corbels and its principal elements are composed of glued laminated timbers, through-bolted in order to provide additional strength. It has arched braces supporting tie-beam, with decorative cast-iron spandrels, surmounted by king post with curved braces to principal rafters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was opened as the British School in February 1859, and presents an architecturally accomplished elevation to Dunalley Street. It is remarkable in its national context for the rare use of glued laminated timber for the 1850s, a period of significant experimentation in the use of constructional techniques, and especially their application to wide-span roofs.
(Journal of the Institute of Wood Studies: Booth LG: The Development of Laminated Timber Arch Structures in early C19: Vol 5 (No.5): July 1971; Drawings at Gloucestershire County Records Office; Cheltenham Looker-On: 12.02.1859).
Listing NGR: SO9486122940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474603
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Booth, L G, Journal of the Institute of Wood Studies in The Development Of Laminated Timber Arch Structures In Early C19, Volume 5 (No5), (1971)
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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