The Former Priory Road School Buildings
THE FORMER PRIORY ROAD SCHOOL BUILDINGS, CROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389521
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-2002
- List Entry Name:
- The Former Priory Road School Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORMER PRIORY ROAD SCHOOL BUILDINGS, CROFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389521
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-2002
- List Entry Name:
- The Former Priory Road School Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORMER PRIORY ROAD SCHOOL BUILDINGS, CROFT ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE FORMER PRIORY ROAD SCHOOL BUILDINGS, PRIORY ROAD
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:
- THE FORMER PRIORY ROAD SCHOOL BUILDINGS, CROFT ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORMER PRIORY ROAD SCHOOL BUILDINGS, PRIORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Hastings (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 82431 10197
Details
757/0/10065 CROFT ROAD 16-APR-03 The former Priory Road School Buildings PRIORY ROAD The former Priory Road School Buildings
II Board School, later used as music centre. Built in 1890 for the Hastings School Board by Frank H Humphrey of Hastings. In Queen Anne style. Built of red brick with stone dressings and tiled roof with elaborate lead ventilation louvres and brick chimneystack. Main part of the school is of one storey and the plan is a large hall running south west to north east with two classrooms on either side with a schoolmaster's house of two storeys to the south west where the entrance is situated.
EXTERIOR: South east front has two storey schoolmaster's house to right hand side with hipped roof, one semi-dormer with round-headed window and sixteen pane sash to left. Moulded brick stringcourse. Ground floor has three round-headed windows. Attached to the north east is an octagonal brick tower in three stages with tiled roof with metal finial. The two lower floors have one round-headed sash window. The upper or bell stage has paired round-headed openings with columns and wooden louvres. To the left of the tower is a pedimented gable with brick and stone rib and round-headed window with mullions and transomes, glazing bars and five stone keystones. Smaller similar gable to return and to end of this elevation which also has two brick buttresses. North west elevation has two large projecting pedimented gables with kneelers and brick and stone ribs. The right side window is a full-height round-headed four-light mullioned and transomed window. The left side one is a Diocletion window. South west front has two storey schoolmaster's house to left side with first floor round-headed window and ground floor penticed lean-to with window and projecting porch with cambered entrance. To the right are two gables, each having a wooden four-light tall round-headed mullioned and transomed window with glazing bars. North east front has two gables, the right side gable with pediment, brick and stone rib and kneelers, the left side one projecting and plainer but both having full-height four-light round-headed mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: Red and black chequered tiled corridor. Six bay hall with arch-braced roof on corbels. Each of the four classrooms is of two bays with arch-braced roof on corbels. Bolection-moulded fireplaces with brown tiles and firegrates and wooden cupboards. Former schoolmaster's house not inspected internally but tower staircase with cast iron balustrading was visible from the exterior.
Listing NGR: TQ8246010496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488206
- 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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