Denstone College

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SK 04 SE DENSTONE C.P. COLLEGE ROAD (OFF)

4/23 Denstone College -

GV II

School. 1868-1873. By Slater and Carpenter. Coursed and squared rough faced stone with ashlar quoins and dresings; clay tile roof with coped verges on kneelers and crested ridge tiles; ashlar lateral external and off-ridge stacks. H-plan including chapel wing (q.v.) to east and Hall wing (q.v.) to north, central range aligned NW-SE and wings aligned NE-SW with additional service wing to NW aligned NW-SE; late C13 Gothic style. Projecting chapel wing (q.v.) to left and projecting Hall wing (q.v.) to right; central range of 2 storeys with lower flanking links of 2 storeys and attic; 3:5:3 bays Central range: Central gabled porch with angle buttresses, central pointed doorway with 2-leaf iron studded door and statuette of founder above; 4 pairs of lancets to each side of door on ground floor linked by a common hood mould, 5 pointed first floor windows, all transomed and of 2 lights with cusped circle over; the heads within coped gables; 2 circular ventilation loops to each side of porch immediately above the level of the ground floor windows; string course just below sill level of first floor windows; moulded eaves cornice incorporating stone rainwater heads. Left hand link: Ground and first floor windows are paired lancets with plate traceried quatrefoils above except ground floor left which is placed within an imitation former doorway and is of 3 lights divided by colonettes, gabled attic dormers of 2 lights with central chamfered mullion and plate traceried quatrefoil to gable. Right hand link: 3 ground floor 2-light chamfer mullioned windows with segmental relieving arches, staircase windows to first floor stepped down from left hand side, all of 2 lights with quatrefoil above, heads level but sills progressively lower to right hand, string just below sill level stepped down as the windows, attic windows match those of the left hand link. SW Elevation: Central 2 storey range of 5 bays with lower 2 storey single bay flanking links to square corner towers of 4 stages marked by strings, with pyramidal roofs incorporating small gable to each side, a single storey range extends across the front of this arrangement, the whole is flanked by long forward projecting wings; central gabled doorway with segmental pointed head, iron studded door and 3 lancets to gable above; ground floor has 8 pairs of lancets to each side of door, both end bays project, the 5 central first floor pointed windows are transomed and of 2-lights with cusped circle over, the heads within coped gables, triple lancet windows to first floor of each flanking link, the lights separated by colonettes; each tower has 2 pointed lights with cusped circle over to second stage, 2 elongated lancets with cusped circle over to third stage, corbelled fourth stage with blind arcading springing from corbels; end elevations of flanking wings have 3 storeys and attic; 1:4:1 bays; projecting outer turrets with pyramidal roofs. Right hand wing: The 4 outer windows of the first 3 storeys are paired lancets with central colonette, the 2 inner windows to the first and second floors are single lancets flanked by colonettes, the inner windows are at different levels to the outer ones, 4 gabled dormers, the 2 inner ones of 3 lights all with Caernarvon arches and blind pointed arch over, the 2 outer ones of 4 lights with blind trefoiled arch over; C20 flat roofed extension to ground floor centre. Left hand wing: Fenestration as right hand wing except 4-light windows to ground floor of right hand turret and to first floor or left hand turret; ground floor of recessed centre has, from the left: small Caernarvon arch window, pointed door, small Caernarvon arch window, paired lancet. A typical high Victorian product built for the Rev. Nathaniel Woodard who founded schools at Hurstpierpoint in 1851, Lancing in 1854, Bloxham in 1860 and Ardingley in 1870. B.O.E. PP 114-115.

Listing NGR: SK0894540308

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 114-5

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