Denstone College Hall
DENSTONE COLLEGE HALL, COLLEGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230652
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Denstone College Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DENSTONE COLLEGE HALL, COLLEGE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230652
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Denstone College Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DENSTONE COLLEGE HALL, COLLEGE 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:
- DENSTONE COLLEGE HALL, COLLEGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 08974 40305
Details
SK 04 SE DENSTONE C.P. COLLEGE ROAD (OFF)
4/25 Denstone College Hall
GV II
School hall. 1888-91. Coursed and squared rough faced stone with ashlar dressings; clay tile roof with coped verges and crested ridge tiles. Forms the north wing of Denstone College (q.v.); Gothic style. 2 storeys; 5 bays each defined by full height gabled buttresses, each ground floor bay has 2 lancets separated by small central buttress, except left hand bay which has 2 lancets separated by a segmental headed doorway with 2-leaf board door and hood mould terminating in a wreath; the gabled first floor windows are transomed triple lancets each with 2 cusped circles over; recessed panel behind gable of each buttress with corbelled moulded head, and gargoyle rainwater head to drain-pipes. NE gable: 2 pairs of central ground floor lancets with common relieving arch and moulded string course stepped up over the windows; central panel over with 4 leaf motifs and the inscription "LIGNUM: CRUCIS: ARBOR: SCIENTIAE", moulded string course over; a further stepped string course at eaves level and another stepped up above the gable window which has 5 trefoil headed lights with Geometri- cal style tracery over, blind central light used as a niche for a statuette of a bishop. B.O.E. PP 114-115.
Listing NGR: SK0897440305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405535
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 114-5
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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