Latitude: 53.7872 / 53°47'13"N
Longitude: -2.2667 / 2°15'59"W
OS Eastings: 382528
OS Northings: 432355
OS Grid: SD825323
Mapcode National: GBR DSMN.24
Mapcode Global: WHB83.42XG
Plus Code: 9C5VQPPM+V8
Entry Name: Woodtop Primary School, with Forecourt Walls, Piers, Railings and Overthrow
Listing Date: 29 September 1977
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1022606
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466976
ID on this website: 101022606
Location: Whittlefield, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11
County: Lancashire
District: Burnley
Electoral Ward/Division: Trinity
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Burnley
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Burnley (Habergham Eaves) St Matthew the Apostle
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Building
BURNLEY
SD83SW ACCRINGTON ROAD 906-1/3/2 (North side) 29/09/77 Woodtop Primary School, with forecourt walls, piers, railings & overthrow
II
Church of England school, with forecourt walls and gateway. 1873; altered. Snecked sandstone rubble, slate roofs with pierced crested ridge tiles (damaged). Gothic style, with steeply-pitched roofs. H-plan plus rear wing. EXTERIOR: single storey, 1:3:1 windows. The main range has a gabled porch in the angle to the right, with a 2-centred arched doorway in a segmental-pointed chamfered surround with hood-mould, and a banner over this with raised lettering "INFANTS"; three 2-light windows with cusped lights; and a skylight in the front slope of the roof. The re-entrant of the left wing has a 2-centred arched doorway with a recessed door and a hood-mould with deep returned ends and carved stops; the gables of both wings have large 2-centred arched windows, that to the left of 4 arched lights with circular and multifoil tracery and that to the right of 3 cusped lights with 3 quatrefoils in the head. The 3-window right-hand return wall of this wing has a gabled centre with a 2-centred arched 2-light window, other windows like those in the main range, and a chimney at the rear gable. Rear in similar but simpler style. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt enclosed by a low wall of sandstone rubble with chamfered coping, carrying bar railings with dog-bars, and a pair of square gate piers opposite the porch with cast-iron gates and an elliptical overthrow which has a square lamp holder at the apex.
Listing NGR: SD8252832355
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