THE FORMER BILSTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, [WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE]

THE FORMER BILSTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, [WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE], WINDSOR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381143
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-2000
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER BILSTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, [WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE]
Statutory Address:: THE FORMER BILSTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, [WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE], WINDSOR STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381143
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-2000
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER BILSTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, [WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE]
Statutory Address 1:: THE FORMER BILSTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, [WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE], WINDSOR STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE FORMER BILSTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, [WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE], WINDSOR STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 94384 96938

Details

SO9496 WINDSOR STREET 895-1/15/10038 Bilston 01-AUG-00 The former Bilston Girls High School, [Wolverhampton College]

II

School. 1929-30; by Col G. C. Lowbridge, architect for Staffordshire Education Committee. Red brick with painted stone dressings. Clay plain tile hipped roofs. Brick axial and end stacks with stone cornices. PLAN: The main front and side classroom ranges are built around two courts separated by a central hall, and with lower classroom ranges and an art room at the back. Neo-Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3:9:5:9:3 bay SE front. The end and centre bays project, the 5-bay centre advanced again by a 3-bay pedimented centrepiece with a modillion cornice; the projecting bays have giant Composite pilasters. The pediment at the centre contains a coat of arms and the doorway below has a moulded architrave with a scrolled open pediment, panelled double doors and an overlight; stringcourse at first floor level and tall 15-pane sashes in exposed cases. 3:5:3 bay left [SW] elevation, the end bays with similar giant pilasters. The right [NE] elevation is only eight bays. At the rear there are lower single-storey ranges enclosing two courts separated by a large hall with big round-headed windows with glazing bars; around the courts are glazed cloisters and behind the school there is the detached art room with a tall lateral chimney stack. INTERIOR: Entrance vestibule with pilasters and square piers supporting a coffered ceiling. Hall has broad pilasters, a moulded cornice and a segmental vaulted plaster ceiling; the gallery has been partitioned from the auditorium. The library is above the entrance in the front range.

Included as a particularly imposing example of a local authority high school of the inter-war period; these buildings were in the vanguard of state secondary education to an advanced level for girls.

Listing NGR: SO9438496938

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 481503
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.