Alexander House and Railings Bethesda School Rooms
ALEXANDER HOUSE AND RAILINGS, BETHESDA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291136
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Alexander House and Railings Bethesda School Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- ALEXANDER HOUSE AND RAILINGS, BETHESDA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291136
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Alexander House and Railings Bethesda School Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALEXANDER HOUSE AND RAILINGS, BETHESDA STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- BETHESDA SCHOOL ROOMS, BETHESDA STREET
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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:
- ALEXANDER HOUSE AND RAILINGS, BETHESDA STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BETHESDA SCHOOL ROOMS, BETHESDA STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88256 47293
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ8847 BETHESDA STREET, Hanley 613-1/8/48 (East side) 01/10/86 Bethesda School Rooms, Alexander House and Railings (Formerly Listed as: BETHESDA STREET, Hanley (East side) Bethesda Methodist School)
II
Former Methodist School. 1819, enlarged 1836. Flemish bond brickwork with plain tiled roof. 2-storeyed, 12 bays fronting church yard, the central section advanced with pedimented gable with giant pilasters and octagonal lantern over. Pilasters also mark angles. Windows are sashes with margin lights and flat arched stuccoed heads with expressed keystones. Upper windows of central section have entablatures carried on console brackets. Pedimented stuccoed gable to street with blind central doorway with entablature and flanking sash windows with margin lights. Central upper window with entablature, also blind. Inscribed in the pediment is "Bethesda School. Erected MDCCCXIX enlarged MDCCCXXXVI". Alexander House forms south wing added to rear beyond former pedimented central gable, matching that to north. Round-arched doorway with margin lights below and tripartite upper windows. Cast-iron railings with domed caps to Bethesda Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8825647293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384367
- 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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