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FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL

FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL, RECTORY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162369
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL, RECTORY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162369
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Oct-2003
List Entry Name:: FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL, RECTORY STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Statutory Address:: FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL, RECTORY STREET

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

District:: Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 86736 06307

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/10/2017

1483/2/19

MIDDLETON RECTORY STREET (West side) FORMER INFANT SCHOOL BUILDING , ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS, GATEPIERS AND ARCHED ENTRANCE GATEWAY AT FORMER DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL SITE (Formerly listed as: RECTORY STREET, MIDDLETON, DURNFORD BUILDING AT DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL, ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND SIDE ENTRANCE)

(Formerly listed as: RECTORY STREET, MIDDLETON DURNFORD BUILDING AT DURNFORD HIGH SCHOOL) 28-OCT-03 II School, with attached boundary walls, railings, gate piers and side entrance structure. 1908-10, with late C20 additions. By Edgar Wood and J.H.Sellers. Brick with Portland stone dressings and a reinforced concrete flat roof.

PLAN: Surviving element of former T-plan school originally the stem section of the complex. Central hall with classrooms to north, south and east sides.

EXTERIOR: Single storey range, formerly a projection to the east of the main building, entered from the west. Six bay central section, with lower three-bay end range to east. South elevation with tall, multi pane windows below coped parapet. A taller inner wall with render finish defines extent of the original central hall. At the east end of the hall, and elaborate tower-like chimney with pilastered corners.

INTERIOR: Not inspected, but thought to retain original doors and partitions. Attached boundary walls enclose front and south sides of the former school site. The central part of the main frontage wall is of red brick with a thin stone coping. Flanking this area are sections of low plinth walling with intermediate piers and sections of ornamental cast iron railings with decorative upper panels. At the south east corner, entrance gateway with angled ashlar gatepiers with ramped cappings. Plain railings on plinth walling extends westwards to taller rendered side entrance wall incorporating an arched entrance gateway with a pair of cast iron gates, and enclosing a flight of covered stone steps leading up to the former playground area.

HISTORY: Durnford Street School was one of two pioneering Municipal Schools (with Elm Street School, q.v.) built by the local Education Committee to establish the new standards of hygiene and teaching practice advocated in the Balfour Education Act of 1902. The school was designed to accommodate 1000 infant, junior and senior children. Consent for the demolition of the Junior and Senior School area was granted by the Local Planning Authority in May 2002.

The surviving parts of an innovative and stylistically-advanced school complex, designed by an architect of national repute, Edgar Wood, in which he explored the use of reinforced concrete and flat roof construction. SOURCES: Archer, J H G. " Edgar Wood (1860 - 1935 )" Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society , vol. 73-4, 1963-4. NBR Historic Buildings Report. " Durnford Street School, Rectory Street, Middleton ,Greater Manchester " December 1995.

Listing NGR: SD8673606307

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

Legacy System number:: 213459
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'NBR Historic Buildings Report' in Durnford Street School, Rectory Street, Middleton, Greater Manchester, (1995)
Archer, J H G, 'Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society' in Edgar Wood 1960-1935, (1964)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.