Former Westminster Road School and Schoolhouse, Now Centre and Flats
FORMER WESTMINSTER ROAD SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NOW CENTRE AND FLATS, WESTMINSTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375988
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Westminster Road School and Schoolhouse, Now Centre and Flats
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WESTMINSTER ROAD SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NOW CENTRE AND FLATS, WESTMINSTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375988
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Westminster Road School and Schoolhouse, Now Centre and Flats
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WESTMINSTER ROAD SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NOW CENTRE AND FLATS, WESTMINSTER ROAD
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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:
- FORMER WESTMINSTER ROAD SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NOW CENTRE AND FLATS, WESTMINSTER ROAD
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 41709 67144
Details
SJ 4167 CHESTER CITY (EM) WESTMINSTER ROAD
(East side)
1932-1/9/298
Former Westminster Road
23.7.1998 School and Schoolhouse,
now centre and flats
II
Former girls primary school now community centre, with attached former schoolhouse, now flats. 1865- 7. By John Douglas. For the second Marquis of Westminster, with some later extension. Brown Flemish bond brick with grey-green slate roofs. Asymmetric plan; lancet style.
PLAN/EXTERIOR: The school has a central hall set back with a differing wing to each side containing smaller hall, schoolrooms and ancillary rooms; the 2-storey schoolhouse, symmetrical, adjoins left. The schoolhouse has 2 steps to replaced boarded door, 1-pane fanlight in pointed arch; tripartite window, now 2;2;2 pane, to each side; 2 pairs of shorter 2-pane windows to first floor, under hipped dormers with lead finials, one damaged; corbelled string at first floor and beneath eaves; a corbelled, plinthed brick chimney at each end.
Left wing of school has gables to front and right, 4 lancets to front and large 16-pane schoolroom window in arched recess facing right; small porch in corner with lancet to front, framed and diagonally boarded door facing right; school hall has a pair of lancets, a pair of tall lancets with roundel above, under a gable, and a small C20 flat-roofed extension, but too prominent, in corner with right wing. The wing has 3 probably inserted 16-pane windows, lancet under dormer-gable and a projecting front gable with stepped 12;15;12-pane lancets; corbelled eaves and verges; a plinthed chimney on ridge of each wing. 5 lucarnes to hall roof; 2 ridge vents. The right end has a 15-pane lancet under gable, a gabled arched porch with panelled sidelights and replaced door. The rear has apsidal end to right wing, fenestration and detailing similar to that to front.
INTERIOR: a number of items including doors typical of Douglas's detailing; exposed queen post and king post trusses.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this was one of the first 12 of the identified executed commissions by John Douglas, out of some 650 dated between 1860 and 1911. Compare with Davenham Church of England Primary School, Vale Royal Borough, Cheshire, designed in Edward Paley's office when Douglas, who was native to an adjacent parish. was his pupil.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-).
Listing NGR: SJ4170967144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469969
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013)
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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