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SJ8645 LONDON ROAD 613-1/9/133 (North West side) 09/04/91 Former School of Art

GV II

Former Art School, now offices. c1853. By Murray and Pugin for Mintons. Brick with stone bands and dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-storeyed, 7 bays, the central bay advanced. Entrance in central bay in architrave with polygonal shafts and stilted arch with relief panels in the spandrels. Windows to each side are 4-pane sashes with stilted arched stone heads and keystones which form console brackets for projecting balconette with wrought-iron railings. Upper mullioned and transomed windows have quatrefoil tracery in gothic arched heads. Facade is enriched with tiled bands depicting stylised birds and foliage, and there is a continuous foliated string course, and hood moulds to upper windows. Moulded stone console brackets and foliate panels as eaves cornice. Upper storey was formerly studio, and survives intact. Built as memorial for Herbert Minton.

Listing NGR: SJ8755245018

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)