College of Further Education Annexe Including Front Railings and Piers
COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION ANNEXE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND PIERS, ABBEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292626
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- College of Further Education Annexe Including Front Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION ANNEXE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND PIERS, ABBEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292626
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- College of Further Education Annexe Including Front Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION ANNEXE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND PIERS, ABBEY 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:
- COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION ANNEXE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND PIERS, ABBEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 19716 69537
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD16NE ABBEY ROAD 708-1/5/15 (North West side) 06/05/76 College of Further Education annexe including front railings and piers
GV II
Technical school with attached front railings, now college annexe. 1900-1903. By Woodhouse and Willoughby. For Barrow Corporation. Contractor W Gradwell and Co. Red brick with buff terracotta banding and dressings; graduated slate roof. Asymmetrical centre with gable of 2 storeys and attic on left of 4-stage tower; reflected pair of 2-storey, 5-bay side wings with railings across their fronts. Centre breaks forward: main entrance on right has Gibbs surround under cartouche marked 'TECHNICAL SCHOOL'; flanking Ionic columns on plinths support large brackets to segmentally-arched cornice. Ground floor to left has moulded plinth and foundation stone beneath 4 casements in shouldered architraves linked by banding; double keystones; continuous cornice. 1st floor: corbelled, balustraded balcony beneath large central window of 3 lights with 2 transoms, stained glass and keyed elliptical arch; flanking this are Ionic pilasters with strapwork and cross-windows with balustraded aprons. Tower to right has spaced terracotta quoins and transomed window. Entablature above the 3-light window has continuous cornice. Attic storey: terracotta gable on left has 4-light mullioned window flanked by pilasters and scrolled supporters; semi-octagonal turret with obelisk finial on left; dentilled cornice beneath round-arched pediment with Borough Arms in tympanum. Banded and corniced stacks on ridge to rear. 3rd stage of tower on right has banded diagonal pilasters set on cartouches; 3-light mullioned window recessed beneath keyed elliptical arch; cornice. Top stage: corner pedestals with obelisks; octagonal cupola with round-arched openings within Ionic colonnade; rounded dome with scroll finials. Left sidewing: offset buttresses between bays; sill band to mullioned and transomed windows having casements with glazing bars and lintels with arched panels; central windows have wider, round-arched middle light; continuous cornice. 1st floor: terracotta bands, no windows; outer buttresses end in scrolls, central 2 rise as Ionic pilasters to flank a terracotta panel set on Lombard frieze with shells; panel depicts The Arts: 6 robed females (one enthroned) with motto 'ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS'. Terracotta entablature with modillioned cornice; '1901' on rain-water heads. Above the panel is a round-arched gable with cartouche and obelisks. Continuous skylight; coped gable on left has scrolled kneelers and arched apex; terracotta ridges. Right side wing is similar; its panel depicts aspects of technology and has motto 'Labor Omnia Vincit'; no gable above and no skylights. Left return: broad gable of side-wing then set forward on left is a 1-storey block with terracotta doorway marked 'STUDENTS ENTRANCE'. INTERIOR: entrance lobby has mosaic floor and terracotta friezes with cartouches, drapes and C-scrolls; ornate double doors with panels below arched lights with cornices. Stairhall: glazed brick and with arcading; stone staircase with wrought-iron balustrade. Plaque on landing records details of the opening on 25.8.1903. Front railings: piers each have plinth, bands, cornice and obelisk on scrolled supports; iron railings with square bars and twin top rails. An extra panel beyond right side wing; railings return to face Bath Street on left. Foundation stone laid 26.5.1900 (for photograph of ceremony see Trescatheric). (Trescatheric B: Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: 29).
Listing NGR: SD1971669537
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 388384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trescatheric, B, Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards, (1982), 29
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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