Prior Pursglove College, Including Master's House, Gymnasium and Assembly Hall
PRIOR PURSGLOVE COLLEGE, INCLUDING MASTER'S HOUSE, GYMNASIUM AND ASSEMBLY HALL, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159503
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Prior Pursglove College, Including Master's House, Gymnasium and Assembly Hall
- Statutory Address:
- PRIOR PURSGLOVE COLLEGE, INCLUDING MASTER'S HOUSE, GYMNASIUM AND ASSEMBLY HALL, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159503
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Prior Pursglove College, Including Master's House, Gymnasium and Assembly Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIOR PURSGLOVE COLLEGE, INCLUDING MASTER'S HOUSE, GYMNASIUM AND ASSEMBLY HALL, CHURCH WALK
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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.
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:
- PRIOR PURSGLOVE COLLEGE, INCLUDING MASTER'S HOUSE, GYMNASIUM AND ASSEMBLY HALL, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Guisborough
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 61731 16187
Details
NZ6116 GUISBOROUGH CHURCH WALK
7/74 Prior Pursglove College, including Master's House, gymnasium and assembly hall.
II
Sixth Form College (originally: grammar school and school house). 1887. Alfred Waterhouse. Dressed sandstone ground floor, red brick first floor; yellow terracotta dressings. Westmorland slate roofs in diminishing courses; clay ridge crestings. 2 storeys. Tudor. Plinth. Mullioned and transomed casement windows throughout. Chamfered string band between floors. First floor sills continued as moulded string. Stepped brick corbelled verges. School: rectangular plan; asymmetrical. Off-centre (R.H.S.) gabled dormer over slight projecting bay on corbels with 3-light window over moulded drop-arched entrance passage, with granite spur stones. To L.H.S. of entrance: 4 6-light ground floor windows, 6 single lights to first floor. To R.H.S. : 2 cross- windows to ground floor, 2 2-light windows above. 3 stacks. Timber clock cupola on ridge, to R.H.S., with shallow copper dome. Tablet above entrance arch records: "Founded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth AD 1561 Guisborough Grammar School re-erected in the reign of Queen Victoria AD 1887". Carved stones from original buildings were built into foundations. House: adjoins E. side of school. Balanced asymmetry. 3 bays: L & R being wider than centre and gabled. L.H.S. projects forward. 6-light windows to ground floor, 3-light to first floor, single light to attic. Moulded strings across eaves line of gables. Central doorway with moulded architrave and shouldered fanlight. 2-light window above. Slate-roofed gabled timber porch on turned shafts on stone dwarf-wall to plinth height. Similar treatment to E. elevation. The listing includes the gymnasium and assembly hall adjoining the N.& W. sides of the school. Erected 1898 by Waterhouse in same style and materials. (N. Pevsner, ".... North Riding", 1966, p179; & B.J.D. Harrison & G. Dixon (Eds) "Guisborough Before 1900", 1981, pp. 144-148 & 225-227).
Listing NGR: NZ6168316214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59942
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 179
Harrison, B J D, Dixon, G, Guisborough Before 1900, (1981), 144-8
Harrison, B J D, Dixon, G, Guisborough Before 1900, (1981), 225-7
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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