Description

NZ6116 GUISBOROUGH CHURCH WALK

7/74 Prior Pursglove College, including Master's House, gymnasium and assembly hall.

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Sixth Form College (originally: grammar school and school house). 1887. Alfred Waterhouse. Dressed sandstone ground floor, red brick first floor; yellow terracotta dressings. Westmorland slate roofs in diminishing courses; clay ridge crestings. 2 storeys. Tudor. Plinth. Mullioned and transomed casement windows throughout. Chamfered string band between floors. First floor sills continued as moulded string. Stepped brick corbelled verges. School: rectangular plan; asymmetrical. Off-centre (R.H.S.) gabled dormer over slight projecting bay on corbels with 3-light window over moulded drop-arched entrance passage, with granite spur stones. To L.H.S. of entrance: 4 6-light ground floor windows, 6 single lights to first floor. To R.H.S. : 2 cross- windows to ground floor, 2 2-light windows above. 3 stacks. Timber clock cupola on ridge, to R.H.S., with shallow copper dome. Tablet above entrance arch records: "Founded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth AD 1561 Guisborough Grammar School re-erected in the reign of Queen Victoria AD 1887". Carved stones from original buildings were built into foundations. House: adjoins E. side of school. Balanced asymmetry. 3 bays: L & R being wider than centre and gabled. L.H.S. projects forward. 6-light windows to ground floor, 3-light to first floor, single light to attic. Moulded strings across eaves line of gables. Central doorway with moulded architrave and shouldered fanlight. 2-light window above. Slate-roofed gabled timber porch on turned shafts on stone dwarf-wall to plinth height. Similar treatment to E. elevation. The listing includes the gymnasium and assembly hall adjoining the N.& W. sides of the school. Erected 1898 by Waterhouse in same style and materials. (N. Pevsner, ".... North Riding", 1966, p179; & B.J.D. Harrison & G. Dixon (Eds) "Guisborough Before 1900", 1981, pp. 144-148 & 225-227).

Listing NGR: NZ6168316214

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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