WIRKSWORTH COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS

WIRKSWORTH COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, CROMFORD ROAD

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School. 1851-2. By H.I.Stevens of Derby. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390708
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-2003
List Entry Name:: WIRKSWORTH COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS
Statutory Address:: WIRKSWORTH COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, CROMFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390708
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-2003
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Dec-2009
List Entry Name:: WIRKSWORTH COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: WIRKSWORTH COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, CROMFORD ROAD

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:: WIRKSWORTH COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, CROMFORD ROAD

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Wirksworth
National Grid Reference:: SK 28774 54312

Details

WIRKSWORTH

812/0/10015 CROMFORD ROAD 17-NOV-03 Wirksworth County Infants School and a ttached railings and walls (Formerly listed as: CROMFORD ROAD Wirksworth Infants and Junior school a nd attached railings and walls)

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Also Known As: Wirksworth Infants and Junior school, HARRISON DRIVE Also Known As: Wirksworth Infants and Junior School, HARRISON DRIVE School. 1851-2. By H.I.Stevens of Derby.

MATERIALS: Coursed squared and tooled sandstone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs with coped gables with kneelers and finials.

PLAN: Irregular plan with three main elements, the gables facing to south.

EXTERIOR: Tudor style with stone mullion and transom windows. Single-storey and attic. West front faces Harrison Drive/Cromford Road and is a single-storey range with a projecting porch to left with wall blank to road but for a quatrefoil window and curved hood-mould. Stacks mainly truncated but tall moulded stone stack to central south front element. From the corners extend the boundary wall to left and the railings to right. In the returns are doors either side within moulded Tudor arch surrounds. Six two-light windows to right. On either end is a four-light window. The south front facing Cemetery Lane is a U-plan with a truncated projecting stack to the side of the Cromford Road element, a two-light window, and a porch with door in similar surround. The front facing south has two- and three-light windows and in the gable a tablet inscribed 'This School Erected A.D. 1851'. The return has a door in similar surround, with two-light dormer over and a single-light window with lattice glazing. This element also has a basement and the facing gable has a canted bay window on a high plinth with a two-light window over. Single-light lattice and other windows to the return from which projects a porch with door in similar surround, leading to a third tall single-storey element which has a four-light window facing south, and three-light windows and projecting porch to east. The north front of this element is blank, and there are other windows and a door in similar surround to the higher central element. From the road porch extends the boundary wall to left. This is of coursed squared stone with triangular coping and there is a small outbuilding on the north side. From the right of the porch extend the railings to right with two sets of stone gatepiers. The railings have knob finials and extend round to the south front and from there the wall continues round the perimeter.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Wirksworth County Infants School and attached railings and walls, Wirksworth, are designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* A fine and little-altered school of the period by a significant local architect.

SOURCES: M. K. Askey, 'The Life and Works of Henry Isaac Stevens - Architect, 1806-73'. Unpublished PhD thesis, 1994.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 490603
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Askey, M, The Life and Works of Henry Isaac Stevens - Architect, (1994)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.