Old Orme Boys' Primary School
Old Orme Boys' Primary School, Pool Dam
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297487
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Orme Boys' Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- Old Orme Boys' Primary School, Pool Dam
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297487
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Old Orme Boys' Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Orme Boys' Primary School, Pool Dam
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:
- Old Orme Boys' Primary School, Pool Dam
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ8457445749
Details
SJ8445NE
644-1/10/47
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
POOL DAM (west side)
Old Orme Boys' Primary School
(Formerly Listed as: POOL DAM, Old Orme Boys' Primary School)
27/09/72
II
School. 1850. Brick with ashlar-faced main range and sandstone dressings and tiled roof with scalloped bands, ridge cresting and fleche. E-plan, with main range of two storeys and five bays, each with gabled dormer. Doorway in central bay with moulded four-centred archway, and mullioned windows with moulded hood moulds. Higher outer bays, the right hand bay with canted and buttressed bay window with lancet lights with foliate spandrels. Large mullioned and transomed arched window in left hand bay with foiled lancets and hood mould. Lancet lights and heraldic emblems in gable apexes. Additional bay to left possibly a slightly later addition. Coped gables with kneelers.
Wing to Orme Road of four buttressed bays with mullioned and transomed windows and flat porch with embattled parapet. String course with gargoyles. Stair turret in angle. Bell cote to rear with leaded apron to wood structure with tiled roof. The building is raised above street level with rusticated retaining wall with crocketted coping to angle piers and wrought-iron railings.
The school was a charitable foundation, resulting from a charity founded in the early C18 and revived in 1850.
(Newcastle Under Lyme 1173-1973: N. Staffs Polytechnic: 1973).
Listing NGR: SJ8457445749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385962
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1908)
Jenkins, J G, A History of Newcastle Under Lyme, (1983), 64
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
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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