Cowley High School, South Block
COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTH BLOCK, COWLEY HILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241408
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Cowley High School, South Block
- Statutory Address:
- COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTH BLOCK, COWLEY HILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241408
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cowley High School, South Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTH BLOCK, COWLEY HILL LANE
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:
- COWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTH BLOCK, COWLEY HILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- St. Helens (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 50557 96075
Details
In the entry for:
SJ 5096 ST HELENS COWLEY HILL LANE
Cowley Hill School, 455-0/4/10002 South Block
GV II
the entry shall be amended to read:-
SJ 5096 ST HELENS COWLEY HILL LANE
455-0/4/10002 Cowley High School, South Block
7.5.92 II
and the description shall be amended as follows:-
the first two sentences shall be amended to read "School building, unoccupied at time of listing (1992). 1911-12 (dated 1911 over doorway), designed as extension to Cowley School (1875-82, by H. Sumners of Liverpool, destroyed by fire, October 1993)." and the last sentence shall be amended to read "Formerly linked to the earlier Cowley School building (latterly known as the North Block) by an external corridor."
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SJ 5096 ST HELENS COWLEY HILL LANE
455-0/4/10002 Cowley Hill School, South Block
GV II
Extension to school, unoccupied at time of inspection (1992). 1911-12 (dated 1911 over doorway). Small red bricks in stretcher bond with dressings of buff terracotta, slate roof hipped over main range with wooden bellcote. Modified U-plan composed of double-pile main range with short wings clasping a projected ground floor. Edwardian Baroque style. Two storeys, 3:5:3 windows at 1st floor, symmetrical. The projected ground floor is flat- roofed, has a moulded terracotta plinth, banded clasping corner pilasters and plain frieze with flat coping; a wide central doorway in an elaborate open-pedimented terracotta architrave which has paired pilasters, a panel lettered A. 1911 D. and swaged cartouche lettered COWLEY SCHOOL; and 3 tall windows each side with terracotta sills and keystones. Behind and above is the school hall, which has 5 large segmental-headed multi-pane windows with moulded terracotta heads and keystones, that in the centre taller and with an open segmental-pedimented architrave; a modillioned cornice and plain parapet run out from the pediment (and carried around the wings); and a hipped roof which has wooden bellcote in the centre with geometrical open tracery, a domed roof and tall finial. The wings have clasping corner pilasters, banded open-pedimented gables, 3 windows on each floor with flat-arched heads and an enriched oculus in the gable. Left return wall has a projected 3-window centre with semi-circular open pediment, and modillioned. Rear of common brick, regular fenestration with flat-arched red-brick heads; diagonal single- storey porch in angle with projecting north wing. Interior not inspected. Forms group with North Block (q.v.), to which it is linked by an external corridor.
Listing NGR: SJ5055796075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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