Thomas Rotherham College
THOMAS ROTHERHAM COLLEGE, MOORGATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192610
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Thomas Rotherham College
- Statutory Address:
- THOMAS ROTHERHAM COLLEGE, MOORGATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192610
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Thomas Rotherham College
- Statutory Address 1:
- THOMAS ROTHERHAM COLLEGE, MOORGATE ROAD
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:
- THOMAS ROTHERHAM COLLEGE, MOORGATE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 43284 91614
Details
SK49SW ROTHERHAM MOORGATE ROAD (west side, off) 5/57 Thomas Rotherham College II College. Built as Independent Theological College, became Rotherham Grammar School, now 6th-form college. 1876 by W.G. Habershon and A.R. Pite of London, contractor L.B. Moore of Bedford (Rotherham Advertiser). Coursed, rock-faced sandstone, ashlar limestone dressings, red tile roofs. 5-storey tower flanked by 2-storey, 4-bay side-wings; 2 additional bays to left, each set forward; 3 contemporary wings to rear with extensive later additions, mostly in keeping. Tudor and Gothic Revival details. Tower : quoins, chamfered and moulded plinths. Offset angle buttresses to lower part. Tall ogee-headed lights and small offset buttresses with gablets flank central door in pointed arch with colonettes and geometric-panelled spandrels. String course and corbelling beneath embattled, 2-storey oriel window with transomed 5-light window to each floor; 2nd-floor window shorter and with apron panels having blank shields, all lights cusped. 3rd-floor string course with buttresses to right rising as an octagonal turret; 2 rectangular openings with hoodmoulds. 4th-floor string course beneath recessed 4-light window with hoodmould. Moulded band beneath embattled parapet. Left return of tower has 2 projecting, lateral stacks; right return has two 2-light windows to 3rd floor with relieving arches and hoodmoulds, 2 similar 4th-floor windows with hoodmoulds. Large embattled, octagonal turret to rear right corner. Side wings : plinth, quoins. Each bay has moulded cross windows with each upper light divided into 2 cusped openings. Relieving arches to ground floor. Each lst-floor window set beneath a coped gable and linked by a string course with gargoyle and a section of embattled parapet. Moulded gable copings with end stacks, that to right with tall castellated pot. Additional bays to far left : less ornate and with attic-storey lit from front gables, lower roofs than adjacent side-wing. Bay to left wider and with embattled, single-storey canted-bay window; transomed 3-light window to 1st floor with string course rising as hoodmould; 2-light attic window with relieving arch. Bay to right has cross window to lower floors, single light to attic. Left return : pointed doorway in 2-storey projection. Right return : simpler elevation in keeping with main facade. Rotherham Advertiser, Sept. 23, 1876 (details of opening ceremony).
Listing NGR: SK4328491614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335692
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rotherham Advertiser in 23 September, (1876)
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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