Bolton First School
BOLTON FIRST SCHOOL, BOLTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389473
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Bolton First School
- Statutory Address:
- BOLTON FIRST SCHOOL, BOLTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389473
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Bolton First School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOLTON FIRST SCHOOL, BOLTON LANE
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:
- BOLTON FIRST SCHOOL, BOLTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16838 35038
Details
1/0/10117 BOLTON LANE
01-NOV-01 Bolton First School
II
Church school. c1860, with C20 alterations and additions. Rockfaced stone with slate roofs and coped gables. Shouldered ridge, side wall and coped gable stacks. Early English style. Chamfered plinth, quoins. Windows, boarded at time of survey, have stone mullions or tracery.
School, single storey, L-plan. Front elevation has school to left and house to right. Recessed link has chamfered pointed arched door, and flat headed 3-light window above. School gable, to left, has a buttress flanked by single pointed arched windows, 2 lights, with tracery. Roundel above. Left return has off-centre through-eaves dormer with pointed arched window, 3 lights, with tracery, flanked by single flat headed windows, with shouldered openings and 3 pointed arched lights. Rear gable has a 3-light pointed arched window with tracery.
School side range has central dormer altered to form fire escape with 2-light traceried window below. To left, 2 windows, to right, single window all with 2 pointed arched lights. Door to right. Rear gable has 3-light pointed arched window with cusped heads.
School house has flat headed window to ground floor and stepped window above, 3 lights. Right return has 4-centred arched doorway with window above, and flat headed window to right, 2 lights.
INTERIOR: Main hall has wagon-vaulted roof with exposed principal rafters on corbels. Smaller hall, divided horizontally mid C20, has steep pitched principal rafter roof with corbels. Both halls have matchboard dadoes. Main hall has stage, smaller hall a panelled screen. House has 2 plain stone fireplaces.
OUTSIDE: Rockfaced stone boundary wall with gabled coping, enclosing triangular site with rounded corner. Bolton Lane side has 2 gateways with chamfered stone gatepiers with round heads and Celtic crosses.
Listing NGR: SE1683835043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488155
- 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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