Stourbridge College of Art
STOURBRIDGE COLLEGE OF ART, HAGLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343199
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Stourbridge College of Art
- Statutory Address:
- STOURBRIDGE COLLEGE OF ART, HAGLEY ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01358/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343199
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Stourbridge College of Art
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOURBRIDGE COLLEGE OF ART, HAGLEY 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:
- STOURBRIDGE COLLEGE OF ART, HAGLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dudley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 90381 84050
Details
HAGLEY ROAD 1. 5106 SO 9084 1/103 Stourbridge College of Art GV II 2. College of Art, formerly town library and technical college. 1903-4 and 1908-9 by Frederick Woodward. Red brick with terracotta dressings and Cumberland and Welsh slate roofs with various brick stacks. In Netherlandish Renaissance style. Complex plan with various ranges occupying corner site. Mostly of 3 storeys, basement and attic. Entrance to corner on right has elaborate terracotta archway surmounted by relief figures within a tympanum. Steps lead to part-glazed doors filled with elaborate stained glass including portrait roundels of Kelvin, Shakespeare, Rubens and Mozart. Tall basket- arched windows over, with moulded terracotta frames and ornamental cornice hoods. Coped Dutch gable. To right a canted battlemented section containing the staircase with similar elaborately ornamented window frames. Further to right, facing Hagley Road, a 2-storey range in similar style. On right an elaborate terracotta archway leading to door, and a clock tower over with clock faces within balconied arches and a domed open belvedere on top. Behind this section rises the second span of the range facing Church Street. Wide sash windows, some with terracotta decoration. On the roof ridge an elaborate domed lantern. To left of the front entrance the end of the range facing Church Street which has a large polygonal 2-storey bay with battlemented parapet and large arched window over. To left the front facing Church Street which is a 9-window range with 4 slightly projecting gabled sections and similar fenestration with elaborate terracotta window surrounds. Further doorway in 2nd gable from left. 2 elaborate domed lanterns on roof. Interior: glazed doors and partitions, staircase with decorative cast-iron balustrade and a fine and extensive series of stained glass windows in art-nouveau style, one signed S Evans, Stained Glass Works, West Smethwick. These are most elaborate on the stairs but continue on both the Hagley Road and Church Street fronts and are a very important feature of the building. Andrew Carnegie contributed £3,000 to the library's foundation and a further £700 to the 1908 newsroom extension.
Listing NGR: SO9038184050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217880
- 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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