GRIMSHAW STREET SCHOOL

GRIMSHAW STREET SCHOOL, GRIMSHAW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279792
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: GRIMSHAW STREET SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: GRIMSHAW STREET SCHOOL, GRIMSHAW STREET

Grimshaw Street School Dated 1836 and 1845 — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Date:: 2001-12-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279792
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: GRIMSHAW STREET SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: GRIMSHAW STREET SCHOOL, GRIMSHAW STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GRIMSHAW STREET SCHOOL, GRIMSHAW STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 54498 29384

Details

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SD5429SW GRIMSHAW STREET 941-1/12/159 (East side) Grimshaw Street School

GV II

School. Dated 1836 and 1845 at 1st floor of centre; with addition of 1882. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, with short addition to north end, plus 1882 projecting crosswing at south end. The main range is 2-storeys, 4:1:3 windows (originally 3:1:3, symmetrical, but extended by one window to the left in 1845), the centre breaking forwards slightly; with a stone plinth, 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice. Tall windows on both floors, all with raised sills and wedge lintels, including coupled windows in the centre, and all with altered glazing; and at the right-hand end a round-headed doorway with double roll-moulded surround, imposts and fanlight (matching working class domestic doorways of the earlier C19), under a stone plaque inscribed "BOYS". The centre has a stone plaque at 1st floor inscribed "ERECTED / 1836 / ENLARGED / 1845", and a long upstand on the cornice with raised lettering "GRIMSHAW ST SCHOOL". Roof with chimney at right-hand gable, hip over extension at left end. The north gable wall has a short set-back link to the church, forming an angle which has elliptical-headed doorways linked at right-angles, with Tuscan pilastered doorcases (matching middle-class domestic doorways of the period), a stone plaque inscribed "GIRLS" over that in the gable wall. The added south wing is single-storey, 5 bays, with buttresses and coupled cusped arched windows. INTERIOR: ground-floor has 3 lateral beams, all with iron rod beneath, trapping a small wheel at each end (function not known); longitudinal corridor to rear; added wing is hall with arch-braced roof. Forms group with associated United Reformed Church (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5449829384

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Legacy System number:: 392043
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.