Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School
Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329842
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School
- Statutory Address:
- Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329842
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School, High Street
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 Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 64690 66362
Details
SJ 66 NW
4/105
WINSFORD FORMER U.D.
HIGH STREET
Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School
GV
II
Former primary school, now part of secondary school. Dated AD 1906. Red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Single storey.
Street front: three central bays project slightly beneath gable. Four pilaster buttresses to this central gabled portion with swept offsets and ball finials all of ashlar. Ashlar surrounds to windows. The central one being of 4 x 5 panes with lateral ones of 3 x 5 panes. The gable has ashlar coping, a keyed ovolo to the centre in a square ashlar piece. Gable above with consoles to the sides and an open pediment which contains the Delamere arms and below this the datestone. To either side are, nearest the centre, windows of 3 x 5 panes with flat semi-dormer heads supported on stone brackets and at the far left and right windows of 2 x 4 panes with ashlar surrounds. Quoins to right hand corner of building and octagonal bellcote to centre of ridge with splayed lower body. Louvred openings to middle and terminating in an octagonal spire.
To the left of this block are two projecting gabled wings, the right one projecting slightly more than that at the left. Similar in both having stone bands, coping stones and pyramidal finials. Each has a central window of 4 x 5 panes with lateral windows of 3 x 4 panes.
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ6469066362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57389
- 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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