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NY4057SW BRAMPTON ROAD 671-1/4/59 (North side) Cumbria College of Art and Design - The Cottage and Homeacres Cottage

GV II

Reform school, now part of college. 1854 for George Head Head of Rickerby with later extensions to rear. English garden wall bond brickwork without plinth; dressings of calciferous sandstone. Steeply-pitched graduated greenslate roof with skylight at rear; original ridge brick chimney stacks. Single storey, single depth, 5 bays with right 2-bay extension. Brampton Road facade has projecting end gables, that at left with a canted bay window; all other windows are 2-light stone mullioned with elaborate patterned cast-iron tracery. Left return has a gable porch with a panelled door in stone surround. Rear doors and casement windows in brick reveals. INTERIOR has exposed hammer-beam trusses. This was built as the Cumberland Reformatory for boys; for further details and illustration see Cumberland News (1956). Homeacres Cottage at right is included for group value. (Cumberland News: 4 May 1956: P.10).

Listing NGR: NY4033757219

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