Love Street School (St Werburgh Middle School)
LOVE STREET SCHOOL (ST WERBURGH MIDDLE SCHOOL), LOVE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375873
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Love Street School (St Werburgh Middle School)
- Statutory Address:
- LOVE STREET SCHOOL (ST WERBURGH MIDDLE SCHOOL), LOVE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375873
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Love Street School (St Werburgh Middle School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOVE STREET SCHOOL (ST WERBURGH MIDDLE SCHOOL), LOVE 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:
- LOVE STREET SCHOOL (ST WERBURGH MIDDLE SCHOOL), LOVE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41020 66337
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 LOVE STREET 1932-1/6/190 (East side) 14/12/92 Love Street School (St Werburgh Middle School)
II
School. 1909 by H Beswick for Chester City Council. Hard red brick dressed with yellow terracotta; grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys south to Union Street, 3 storeys north to Forest Street, plus attic. The south face has 4 pediment-gables; each with two 20-pane hopper windows per storey; flush sillbands; moulded sills; staggered voussoirs to window-heads linked by double floor-bands; gables of banded brick with blank shields and triangular pediments to the 2 central bays, broken pediments to the unequally projecting end bays. Boys' entrance pavilion, left, and girls', right, each of one storey plus attic; round-arched terracotta entrances with banding, pediments and dressings; pedimented gable to attic window. The 3-storey block to Forest Street rises behind, with nicely-placed furnace-chimney expressed as campanile, with timber-framed cantilevered bell-cote. Gable towards Love Street has terracotta apex inscribed "CITY OF CHESTER COUNCIL SCHOOL: AD 1909". The north face to Forest Street has 20-pane hopper windows to ground floor and first floor, and a large round-arched window in front gable-end of each flanking bay. Stair-well expressed on facade; end pavilions. INTERIOR not inspected. The elements of the building are well-composed, providing a good asymmetrical grouping when seen from Vicar's Lane and Love Street. Building vacant at time of survey. (Chester City Council and Committee: Education Committee Minutes: 1908-1910: PASSIM).
Listing NGR: SJ4102066337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469852
- 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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