Ludlow College High Hall and Attached Railings

LUDLOW COLLEGE HIGH HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CASTLE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1202786
Date first listed:
15-Apr-1954
List Entry Name:
Ludlow College High Hall and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
LUDLOW COLLEGE HIGH HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CASTLE SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1202786
Date first listed:
15-Apr-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Aug-1993
List Entry Name:
Ludlow College High Hall and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
LUDLOW COLLEGE HIGH HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CASTLE SQUARE

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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:
LUDLOW COLLEGE HIGH HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CASTLE SQUARE

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ludlow
National Grid Reference:
SO 50974 74627

Details

LUDLOW

SO5074 CASTLE SQUARE 825-1/1/194 Ludlow College: High Hall and 15/04/54 attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE SQUARE Ludlow Grammar School)

GV II*

School. Late C18. Brick; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick end stack and stacks to rear. Double-depth, central staircase plan. 3-storeys and basement; 5-window range: 6/6 sashes in moulded cases under gauged brick flat arches; four 3/3 sashes in moulded cases under gauged brick flat arches; moulded and modillioned eaves cornice; parapet; central mullion and transom window under cambered arch and raised portion of modillioned stone coped moulded parapet; 4 domed louvres. Steps to central 6 fielded-panel door and gothic glazed fanlight in round-headed case under porch with open pediment hood on Ionic columns; flanked by pairs of mullion and transom windows with casements under gauged brick flat arches, over basement windows, some blocked. Stone coped wing walls have attached wrought-iron railings. C19 double-depth wing to left, has similar fenestration to 1st and 2nd floors; moulded cornice and parapet; entrance to right has 6 fielded-panel door and overlight with glazing bars, under gauged brick flat arch; canted tripartite window with casements and clerestory, under gauged brick flat arch, to left. Right return has various sashes and large mullion and transom windows, under gauged brick flat arches; cornice and parapet returned. Rear elevation has pairs of mullion and transom windows with casements and glazing bars, with pairs of 3/3 sashes over, flanking central 6/6 sash. Ground floor has Venetian staircase window. Returned cornice and parapet.

Listing NGR: SO5097774629

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Legacy System number:
389818
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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