Former Infants School at Clarence Street School
FORMER INFANTS SCHOOL AT CLARENCE STREET SCHOOL, CLARENCE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389601
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former Infants School at Clarence Street School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER INFANTS SCHOOL AT CLARENCE STREET SCHOOL, CLARENCE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389601
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former Infants School at Clarence Street School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER INFANTS SCHOOL AT CLARENCE STREET SCHOOL, CLARENCE 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 INFANTS SCHOOL AT CLARENCE STREET SCHOOL, CLARENCE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Swindon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15389 84601
Details
1097/0/10029 Former Infants' School at Clarence Str
04-DEC-01 eet School
GV II
Education authority infants' school, now in council education and community use. 1903. Red brick with stone dressings. Plain tile hipped , half-hipped and gable-ended roofs with coped gables and corbelled brick eaves courses and small lead-clad ventilators on ridges. Brick axial stacks with moulded stone cops.
PLAN: Three main classrooms open to roofs in three ranges at front with classrooms in range at rear [E].
Dutch Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey. 4:4:4 bay west front with central half-hipped gable with four tall round-headed windows, centre two taller, right converted to doorway with stone hoodmoulds and keyblocks and small panes; gables to left and right, left set back, with two round-headed and flanking segmental-headed windows with continuous hoodmoulds, centre two with keystones rising as shafts into gables with stone panel between and third stone shaft rising through gable apex. On north and south sides and at rear [E] sash windows with segmental arches; south side has brick porch with elliptical stone arch with keyblock.
INTERIOR not inspected.
A good example of an early C20 education authority infants' school.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488289
- 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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