Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall)
Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall), Clifton Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249999
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall)
- Statutory Address:
- Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall), Clifton Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249999
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall), Clifton 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:
- Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall), Clifton Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50788 75065
Details
SP 5075 SE
3/157
RUGBY
CLIFTON ROAD
Lawrence Sheriff School (North Range and Hall)
II
School. 1878, extended in early and late C20. Flemish bond red brick with stone dressings and sham timber framing in gables. Plain tile roof with stone coped gable ends. Truncated brick gable-end stacks. Tiled wooden bellcote over centre.
Main front range with rooms either side of central entrance which leads to a large hall in wing at rear. Extended on left and right in early C20 and at rear later in C20. High Victorian Gothic style.
Two storeys and attic. Symmetrical three-bay north front. Central projecting gabled bay with large moulded pointed arch doorway, flanking buttresses, three painted armorial shields above, over which a moulded string rises as sill to two large pointed arch windows with plate tracery and leaded-pane lights with cusped heads; between the windows a large canopied niche containing a figure in the livery of the London Grocers' Company. Flanking the central gabled bay four-light stone mullion windows, the ground floor with transoms and lowered sills; wide gables above eaves with sham timber framing and pierced bargeboards.
Wooden bellcote on centre of ridge with louvres between balusters supporting conical slated spire with finial. Georgian style early C20 two-storey, five-bay wing on right with sash windows and single storey wing on left. Hall wing at rear has gables on sides with pointed arch windows.
Interior: only hall inspected, which has elaborate crown-post roof with arcading over the tie-beam.
Note: The school was founded as a separate Lower School for local boys when, after the Public Schools Act of 1868, the Great School (Rugby School) no longer provided free education for local children. It was erected at a cost of £15,000 including the site.
Listing NGR: SP5078875065
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Warwickshire, (1904), 202-3
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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