COTTON COLLEGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191607
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: COTTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: COTTON COLLEGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191607
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: COTTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: COTTON COLLEGE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: COTTON COLLEGE

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Cotton
National Grid Reference:: SK0656746422

Details

SK 04 NE 4/81 3/1/67

COTTON C.P. COTTON Cotton College (Formerly listed as "Cotton Hall")

GV II

House, now school. Late C18 with later alterations, and additions of 1846-8 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1874-5, 1886-7 and 1931-2. C18 house of red brick with painted ashlar dressings and slate covered Mansard roof; additions by Pugin in ashlar and in red and brown brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs with coped verges; later C19 additions in ashlar with edged herringbone tooling and shaped tile roof with plain tile bands and coped verges; brick stacks. Symmetrical C18 house with Gothic style additions; C18 nucleus aligned north-west / south-east facing south-west, extended to the north-east in 1846-8, a wing of 1874-5 aligned north-east/south-west projects south-west from the north-west end of the C18 building, extension of 1886-7 aligned north-west/south-east attached to the north-west. Central C18 block, extensions of 1846-8 to the right, wing of 1874-5 to the left. C18 block: 3-storey range with attic to the left, 2-storey range with attic to the right under the same roofline, central semi- octagonal projection of 2 storeys and attic with pointed hipped roof; 4:3:3 bays. Left-hand range: central straight joint with groins of unequal length showing that the 2 right hand bays are earlier, glazing bar sashes with horns and wedge lintels, the second floor windows have cambered heads; 2-leaf half-glazed door to the right with Tuscan portico on fluted columns. Central projection: ground floor windows are glazing bar sashes, the first-floor windows are 4-pane sashes. Right-hand range: first floor storey band and ground floor window sill band, glazing bar sashes, those to second floor have cambered heads. Corbelled eaves and attic dormers throughout. Additions of 1846-8; in 2 parts, 3 storey brick block of 3 gabled bays to the left, low ashlar building to the right. Left hand block: 6-light mullioned and transomed windows to ground and first floors, 2 -storey bay window to the left with hipped roof, second floor casements. Right-hand block: main range of one storey and attic and 3 bays, the gabled left hand bay contains a segmental pointed door and a pair of Carnarvon arch lights over, gable capped by a ball finial; slightly lower central gable with single-storey passage building extending obliquely from below it and forming a link with the Church of St. Wilfrid (q.v.). Wing of 1874-5: 2 storeys and attic on high basement; 6 bays with buttresses at the divisions and a square tower to the right with chamfered corner; 3- light chamfer mullioned basement windows, square head ground floor window with 2 trefoil headed lights, high transom and supermullions, segmental pointed second floor windows with trefoil headed lights and supermullions containing a single reticulation, gabled dormers with shaped barge boards. Interior: Victorian staircase with turned balusters. B.O.E. P. 109.

Listing NGR: SK0656746422

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Legacy System number:: 275077
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)

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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.