Sharp Street Ragged School
SHARP STREET RAGGED SCHOOL, SHARP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254650
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sharp Street Ragged School
- Statutory Address:
- SHARP STREET RAGGED SCHOOL, SHARP STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12599/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254650
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sharp Street Ragged School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHARP STREET RAGGED SCHOOL, SHARP STREET
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:
- SHARP STREET RAGGED SCHOOL, SHARP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84511 99107
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8499 SHARP STREET, Ancoats 698-1/15/468 (West side) Sharp Street Ragged School
GV II
Ragged School, now mission, Sunday School and Boys' Club. Established 1853, rebuilt 1869. Red brick, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Two storeys and 8 bays, pilastered, with a corbel table to each bay. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway to the 1st bay, with panelled door and fanlight with semi-circular tracery, a segmental-headed window to the 4th bay with a doorway below the sill (perhaps an insertion), and coupled segmental-headed windows in the other bays; the 1st floor has coupled round-headed windows. The rear is similar. Interior: longitudinal partition which formerly divided the school into 2 halves at ground floor, one side reserved for reception classes of children who were so wild and scruffy that they had to be tamed before they could be educated; stone staircase; hall at 1st floor; original fireplaces and other fittings. Still occupied by the charitable institution which established it.
Listing NGR: SJ8451199107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457627
- 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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