Girls High School
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, DENMARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271658
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Girls High School
- Statutory Address:
- GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, DENMARK ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271658
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Girls High School
- Statutory Address 1:
- GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, DENMARK 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:
- GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, DENMARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83798 19388
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW DENMARK ROAD 844-1/3/104 (North side) 12/03/73 Girls' High School
II
Girls' high school. c1900, later C20 additions and alterations. By WB Wood. Red Brick with dressed stone details, tiled roofs with gabled dormers, brick stacks. Northern Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attics. 3:6:3 fenestration pattern to facade with gabled outer wings flanking recessed outer block. Centre: flat-roofed projections to ground floor with segmental-arched lights flanking gabled porch with "GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL" in cartouche and chamfered arch of 3 orders dying into splayed jambs and with angled pilasters; first floor articulated into recessed bays by pilasters; 3-light double-transomed windows with segmental-arched lights; crenellated parapet with arched links to stepped merlons; gabled dormers with 3-light casements; louvred ventilators. Wings have tall segmental-arched casements with small-paned timber casements and ashlar imposts; ground-floor left is blank. Right and left-hand returns each have tall stair tower with crenellated parapet set behind more modest but similar porches, to Seniors on right and Juniors on left. Parallel-gabled rear wing, with cross-gabled rear elevation then flat-roofed range. INTERIOR: not inspected, but known to be complete with original joinery and stained and patterned glass. A most distinctive and richly-detailed design, interpreting with flair and imagination the Free Style commonly adopted for Board School designs from the later C19.
Listing NGR: SO8379819388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472194
- 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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