Western Building to Chesterfield College of Art and Technology
WESTERN BUILDING TO CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY, SHEFFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203317
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Western Building to Chesterfield College of Art and Technology
- Statutory Address:
- WESTERN BUILDING TO CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY, SHEFFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203317
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Western Building to Chesterfield College of Art and Technology
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTERN BUILDING TO CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY, SHEFFIELD 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:
- WESTERN BUILDING TO CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY, SHEFFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Chesterfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38349 71674
Details
1.
5169
SK 3871 NW
5/171
SHEFFIELD ROAD
(East Side)
Western building to Chesterfield College of Art and Technology
SK 3871 NW 5/171
II
GV
2.
1846 with later C19 additions. Formerly Chesterfield Grammar School. A school
in Chesterfield first recorded in the C13. Letters patent from Elizabeth I in
1598 speak of the Chapel of St Helen's being converted to a schoolroom (site to
east of present building). School rebuilt 1709 and again in 1846. Coursed stone
with quoins and moulded band at 1st floor. Fishscale and plain tile banded roof.
Coped gables with kneelers, some with finials. Roofs with cresting and stone chimneys.
Northern part triple gabled and of 3 storeys is oldest part. 3 windows with stone
mullions, ground floor with transoms also. Centre door. Adjoining centre section
advanced. 2 gables with tower in angle between these. 2 storeys. Gothic arched
doorway below tower, shield and date above. Southern recessed part, centre gable
2 storeys, 3 windows. Famous pupils include, in early C18, Thomas Secker later
Archbishop of Canterbury and later, Erasmus Darwin, Grandfather of Charles Darwin.
VCH Vol II p 223.
Listing NGR: SK3834971674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83467
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Derby, (1905), 223
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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