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SK07SE CORBAR ROAD 616-1/2/30 (North West side) John Duncan School, Wye House

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Formerly known as: Corbar Hill House CORBAR ROAD. Also known as: John Duncan School CORBAR STREET. Detached house. Late C19, minor C20 addition. Reputedly built for Ryder family. Rock-faced millstone grit with ashlar dressings. Mansard pavilion roofs of Westmoreland slate with stone stacks. STYLE: French Chateau. EXTERIOR: 2 storey plus attic. Plinth, ground floor lintel band, first-floor sill band and moulded eaves. Symmetrical 7-window front with taller 3-light central section. Central doorway in moulded ashlar door surround with double half-glazed 6-panel doors and above a segment headed plain sash in moulded ashlar surround topped by oval dormer with ashlar surround. Either side slightly projecting 2 storey tripartite plain sashes, those to upper floor segment headed topped with pavilion roofs and moulded ashlar gabled dormers with 2 sashes. Beyond set-back sections single plain sashes in moulded ashlar surrounds, those to upperfloor segment headed. Either side single 2 storey canted bay windows with plain sashes, those to upper floor segment headed, both outer bays topped with oval dormer windows in moulded ashlar surrounds. Returns have similar 2 storey canted bay windows, and plain sashes. INTERIOR: original staircase remains, and also some plasterwork. Built as Corbar Hill House, this building is not to be confused with Wye House (now Cavendish School and not included) built by Henry Currey 1862, also on Corbar Road.

Listing NGR: SK0552474159

External Links

• Wikidata Q26550495

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)