COTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

COTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, COTTON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389530
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-2001
List Entry Name:: COTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: COTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, COTTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389530
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-2001
List Entry Name:: COTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: COTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, COTTON LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: COTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, COTTON LANE

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Oakamoor
National Grid Reference:: SK0645445829

Details

1757/0/10005 09-NOV-01

COTTON COTTON LANE Cotton Primary School

II

School house and adjoining school. c1840, probably by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for the Talbot family of Cotton Hall. Ashlar, with steep pitched plain tile roof with coved eaves detail. Single gable and ridge stacks, rebuilt C20 in concrete block. Coped gables, with single gabled bellcote and cross to left. 2 storeys; 3 window range. Central C20 wooden porch covering original segmental pointed arched doorway and oak door. On each side, a flat headed window, reglazed late C20. To left, blocked doorway to through-passage. Above, central stair window with mullion. Above again, 2 through-eaves dormers, reglazed, with coped gables. Rear has central single light window flanked by 2-light windows, all reglazed. To right, segmental pointed door. Above, 3 gabled dormers, the central dormer single-light. INTERIOR: Plain rooms, with some original 6-panel and 4-panel doors. Stone fireplace with chamfered pointed arch. Winder stair with square newels and chamfered stick balusters.

School, red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with patterned ridge tiles. Single storey, 5 bays, divided by buttresses. Plinth, moulded eaves detail, external gable and central ridge stacks, formerly with stone shafts. Three C19 conical ventilators. Street front has to left a double plain sash. To right, four 2-light casements with stone mullions, and mainly with original glazing bars. All these windows have chamfered stone surrounds. Above, box dormer. To left, boundary wall to yard, now roofed in, with chamfered coping and plain sash. Rear has later C19 and mid C20 single storey additions. INTERIOR: 2 classrooms with arch-braced open roofs on stone corbels, ceiled at collar level. Doors, doorways and stair balustrade identical to those of school house.

Listing NGR: SK0645445829

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

Legacy System number:: 488215
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.