Nicholson Institute and Leek College of Further Education
NICHOLSON INSTITUTE AND LEEK COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, STOCKWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268544
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Nicholson Institute and Leek College of Further Education
- Statutory Address:
- NICHOLSON INSTITUTE AND LEEK COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, STOCKWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268544
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Nicholson Institute and Leek College of Further Education
- Statutory Address 1:
- NICHOLSON INSTITUTE AND LEEK COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, STOCKWELL STREET
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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:
- NICHOLSON INSTITUTE AND LEEK COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, STOCKWELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98512 56678
Details
SJ 9856 NE LEEK STOCKWELL STREET
611-1/5/133 Nicholson Institute and Leek
College of Further Education
07.06.1972
II*
Institute and library. 1882-4. By William Larner Sugden; extended 1899-1900 by W.L. Sugden by addition of the Silk and General Technical School'. Brick (rusticated to ground floor) with stone dressings. Main roof not visible, but copper dome to tower. Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: 2-storeyed with basement, 3-bay front, comprising Dutch gable to left, massive central mullioned and transomed window, and advanced entrance and stair-tower to right. Dutch gable has bow window with stone mullions to ground floor, flanked by square turret-towers built against the gable wall and 2-storeyed in height, surmounted by stone domed roofs. Gable rises above these, with pedimented head. Central 3-tier mullioned and transomed window with low-relief busts in entablature, and inscription plate above with enriched scroll-work and broken pediment below balustrading surmounted by urns. Advanced tower to right, the entrance raised up steps with cast and wrought-iron lamp standards and rail. Renaissance entrance, with round-arched doorway in pedimented case, with fluted composite shafts carrying angled entablature. Tablet at apex of pediment inscribed 'Nicholson Institute'. Pediment cuts into 4-tier mullioned and transomed window with broken pediment over. Stone pilasters in upper stage of tower and central lunette. Copper domed roof and lantern Return elevation has two 3-tier mullioned and transomed windows, and oriel window with Ipswich-style glazing at first floor. Rear wing beyond with 3 full-height round arched recessed with tiered mullioned and transomed windows. Fluted brick chimneys. Adjoining the Institute to rear right, the former Technical College (now Leek College of Further Education). Brick with plain-tiled roof. 2 storeys, 3-window range with central gable. Large mullioned and transomed windows, in round-arched recesses to first floor, segmentally-arched to lower storey. Low-relief plasterwork in tympana. Plain brick pilasters between the windows. Entrance (remodelled) in left-hand bay.
INTERIOR of Institute retains many of the original features, including the entrance hall, the main staircase, and the museum and picture gallery in the attic, and studios on the ground floor with north lights; much of the original joinery and plasterwork remains intact. The technical school extension retains main staircase, moulded plaster tympanum with clock over doorway, and moulded brass memorial.
SOURCES: [1] Buildings of England., p.170. [2] Girouard, M., Sweetness and Light, pp.88 and 89.
Listing NGR: SJ9851256678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461707
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, Sweetness And Light, the Queen Anne Movement 1860 -1900, (1977 ), 88-89
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 170
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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