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Latitude: 52.6341 / 52°38'2"N
Longitude: -1.6998 / 1°41'59"W
OS Eastings: 420416
OS Northings: 304077
OS Grid: SK204040
Mapcode National: GBR 4FD.WLG
Mapcode Global: WHCH3.V1SZ
Plus Code: 9C4WJ8M2+J3
Entry Name: Former Peel School
Listing Date: 28 February 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197031
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386538
ID on this website: 101197031
Location: The Leys, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79
County: Staffordshire
District: Tamworth
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tamworth
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Tamworth St Editha
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: School building
TAMWORTH
SK2004SW LICHFIELD STREET
670-1/6/109 (North side)
Former Peel School
GV II
School, now part of housing development. 1850. By S.Smirke,
for Sir Robert Peel P.M. Tudor style. Rectangular plan. Brick
with blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings; tile roof with
cresting. One storey; 3-window range. Ashlar-dressed offset
buttresses and coped gables. 4-light
double-hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows; central gablet with
escutcheon to panel. Right return has 4-light transomed window
under dripstone and relieving arch with quatrefoil above; left
return similar, with 2 plaques recording history of building:
date 1850 in blue brick flanking quatrefoil. Rear has small
parallel range with 2 hipped dormers; C20 porch to re-entrant
angle. Interior noted as having arch-braced roof trusses with
tracery infill.
(Buildings of England: N.Pevsner: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: 278).
Listing NGR: SK2041604077
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