Glusburn Institute Including Walls to Garden Along Colne Road Returning North Along Croft Head For 10 Metres

GLUSBURN INSTITUTE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN ALONG COLNE ROAD RETURNING NORTH ALONG CROFT HEAD FOR 10 METRES, COLNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131812
Date first listed:
07-Apr-1977
List Entry Name:
Glusburn Institute Including Walls to Garden Along Colne Road Returning North Along Croft Head For 10 Metres
Statutory Address:
GLUSBURN INSTITUTE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN ALONG COLNE ROAD RETURNING NORTH ALONG CROFT HEAD FOR 10 METRES, COLNE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131812
Date first listed:
07-Apr-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Glusburn Institute Including Walls to Garden Along Colne Road Returning North Along Croft Head For 10 Metres
Statutory Address 1:
GLUSBURN INSTITUTE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN ALONG COLNE ROAD RETURNING NORTH ALONG CROFT HEAD FOR 10 METRES, COLNE 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GLUSBURN INSTITUTE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN ALONG COLNE ROAD RETURNING NORTH ALONG CROFT HEAD FOR 10 METRES, COLNE ROAD

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Glusburn and Cross Hills
National Grid Reference:
SE 00131 44793

Details

SD 94 SW GLUSBURN COLNE ROAD 6/77 (north side) 7/4/77 Glusburn Institute including walls to garden along Colne Road returning north along Croft Head for 10 metres (formerly listed as Crosshill Institute etc)

II

Village Institute of 1892 with clock tower added 1911. Dressed stone and ashlar with green slate roof. Two storeys with higher turrets and 4 bays. Windows mostly mullioned and transomed. One bay window of complex form rises through 3 storevs. A small open turret with stone cap and ball finials is corbelled out from parapet above a panel with a florid carved achievement (probably Horsfall). Over the doorway rises a stone domed clock tower with 4-panelled and domed pinnacles. Arcaded pierced parapet. To Institute Street there is a freestanding doorway of Baroque character. To the left hand side is a plainer facade with 3 gables. Attached is a low stone wall with domed piers and iron railings along Colne Road.

Listing NGR: SE0013144793

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
323604
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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