Hargreaves School
HARGREAVES SCHOOL, ALSOP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268661
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Hargreaves School
- Statutory Address:
- HARGREAVES SCHOOL, ALSOP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268661
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Hargreaves School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARGREAVES SCHOOL, ALSOP 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:
- HARGREAVES SCHOOL, ALSOP 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 98286 56236
Details
LEEK
SJ9856SW ALSOP STREET 611-1/6/11 (East side) Hargreaves School
II
School, now in partial use as commercial premises. Dated 1873. Brick with stone dressings and green slate roof. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5-window range. Tower over entrance to left, slightly advanced. Stumpy recessed columns carry deeply moulded archway of entrance between buttresses with stone gablets. Dated with its name in a tablet above the doorway. 2-light traceried window above, and rose window in coped gablet below mansard roof. Lower windows in main school-room range to right are paired, with stilted arches and foliate capitals to the central shaft. Continuous hoodmould and cill band. Upper windows alternately paired cusped stilted arches divided by shaft with foliate capital, and foiled 2-light windows beneath coped gablet. All upper windows linked by continuous cill band and hoodmould, and many retain original leading. Coped gables and ridge cresting throughout. INTERIOR: not inspected. The school was built for Leek Congregational Church and named after a former minister. A convincing composition in Gothic Revival style.
Listing NGR: SJ9828656236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461585
- 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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