Former Eagley Bridge School
FORMER EAGLEY BRIDGE SCHOOL, SCHOOL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388260
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Former Eagley Bridge School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER EAGLEY BRIDGE SCHOOL, SCHOOL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388260
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Former Eagley Bridge School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER EAGLEY BRIDGE SCHOOL, SCHOOL 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:
- FORMER EAGLEY BRIDGE SCHOOL, SCHOOL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD7185013214
Details
BOLTON
SD71SW THREADFOLD WAY, Eagley
797-1/2/250 (North West side)
20/06/97 "The School House" (Former
Eagley Bridge School)
GV II
School. 1851, extended 1872, with further C20 alterations and
additions. By Whittaker and Woodhouse, architects of Bolton,
for Messrs Chadwick Bros of Eagley Mills. Coursed squared
Darwen sandstone with ashlar dressings, coped gables and a
Welsh slated roof. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: original building of linear plan form, with 1972
extensions comprised of advanced wings with a linking
crosswing.
EXTERIOR: front elevation has advanced steeply pitched gables
to right and left, with recessed crosswing, and gabled porches
to each angle between crosswing and gables. Tall, stepped
3-light mullioned windows beneath hoodmoulds to gables.
Crosswing with two 2-light windows. Gables to 1851 building
with wide 5-light mullion and transom windows within pointed
arched openings.
INTERIOR: altered in C20, but designed with arch-braced tie
and collar beam trusses rising from corbels below wall plate
level, and with braced queen posts. The central parts of the
tie beams are of circular section, and the resultant effect is
reminiscent of hammer beam construction.
HISTORY: the school was built to replace an earlier cottage
school of 1791, amd its development and expansion mirrored
that of the nearby Eagley Mills spinning and finishing complex
which provided employment for the Eagley Bridge community.
Eagley Bridge School is a now rare example of educational
patronage and provision by a cotton manufacturing company
which remained in use into the late C20.
Listing NGR: SD7185013214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476258
- 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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