Description

BURNLEY

SD8433SW ORMEROD ROAD 906-1/10/105 (North side) 29/09/77 Burnley College with attached railings (Formerly Listed as: ORMEROD ROAD Municipal College)

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Technical institute, now college of further education. 1905-9. By GH Pickles. Steel frame clad in coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs. Free Jacobean style. PLAN: very large approximately square plan formed by a long, storeyed front range and a wide single-storey back extension under a north-lights roof (like a weaving shed). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over a full basement storey, 1:3:1:3:1 bays, symmetrical, the centre and ends breaking forwards slightly and gabled; with sillbands and cornices to all floors, semi-octagonal pilasters to the centre and ends, pilasters to the intermediate ranges, steeply-pitched coped gables with ball finials, and parapets to the intermediate ranges interrupted by the heads of the central windows. The centre has a large round-headed doorway approached by a bridge over the basement area, with a pilastered architrave, panelled frieze, moulded cornice and chunky swan-neck pediment containing a cartouche surrounded by carved flourishes, and flanked by narrow pedimented side windows; at 1st floor, a 4-light window with pilastered mullions, a frieze with raised lettering "TECHNICAL INSTITUTE", and a large tympanum filled with carved emblematic figures. The end bays, 1:2:1 windows each, have 2 large mullion-and-transom windows in the centre of each floor, those at 1st floor with arched lights and those at 2nd floor with 2 transoms and semicircular arched heads with keystones. The intermediate ranges, also 1:2:1 windows, have similar mullion-and-transom windows, those in the centre of the upper floor much taller, breaking through the parapet and finished with segmental-arched copings with ball finials. The returned ends are in similar style. Rear: C20 additions linked by bridge. INTERIOR: entrance hall and staircases lined with Art Nouveau glazed tiling in blue and green hues. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings protecting the basement area, divided into sections by rectangular piers which have tapered side supporters.





Listing NGR: SD8442833043

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