Burnley College With Attached Railings
BURNLEY COLLEGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, ORMEROD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244997
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Burnley College With Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BURNLEY COLLEGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, ORMEROD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244997
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Burnley College With Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURNLEY COLLEGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, ORMEROD 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:
- BURNLEY COLLEGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, ORMEROD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84428 33043
Details
BURNLEY
SD8433SW ORMEROD ROAD 906-1/10/105 (North side) 29/09/77 Burnley College with attached railings (Formerly Listed as: ORMEROD ROAD Municipal College)
II
Technical institute, now college of further education. 1905-9. By GH Pickles. Steel frame clad in coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs. Free Jacobean style. PLAN: very large approximately square plan formed by a long, storeyed front range and a wide single-storey back extension under a north-lights roof (like a weaving shed). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over a full basement storey, 1:3:1:3:1 bays, symmetrical, the centre and ends breaking forwards slightly and gabled; with sillbands and cornices to all floors, semi-octagonal pilasters to the centre and ends, pilasters to the intermediate ranges, steeply-pitched coped gables with ball finials, and parapets to the intermediate ranges interrupted by the heads of the central windows. The centre has a large round-headed doorway approached by a bridge over the basement area, with a pilastered architrave, panelled frieze, moulded cornice and chunky swan-neck pediment containing a cartouche surrounded by carved flourishes, and flanked by narrow pedimented side windows; at 1st floor, a 4-light window with pilastered mullions, a frieze with raised lettering "TECHNICAL INSTITUTE", and a large tympanum filled with carved emblematic figures. The end bays, 1:2:1 windows each, have 2 large mullion-and-transom windows in the centre of each floor, those at 1st floor with arched lights and those at 2nd floor with 2 transoms and semicircular arched heads with keystones. The intermediate ranges, also 1:2:1 windows, have similar mullion-and-transom windows, those in the centre of the upper floor much taller, breaking through the parapet and finished with segmental-arched copings with ball finials. The returned ends are in similar style. Rear: C20 additions linked by bridge. INTERIOR: entrance hall and staircases lined with Art Nouveau glazed tiling in blue and green hues. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings protecting the basement area, divided into sections by rectangular piers which have tapered side supporters.
Listing NGR: SD8442833043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467158
- 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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