Description

SJ 75 SW CREWE RUSKIN ROAD
(West side)
153/5/10015
Caretaker's House
01.10.1999 At the Ruskin School

GV II

Alternatively know as: Caretaker's House at Ruskin Road School, ROOK STREET.
Caretaker's house and attached outbuilding. 1909, by H Beswick, County Architect. Red brick with paler brick bands and terra cotta dressings, and Westmorland slate roof. Gables have roughcast panels. 2 storeys; 3 x 1 bays. Windows are mainly original glazing bar sashes, with keystones. Front has a central projecting gable with a part-glazing door to left under a round arch with keystone and blank fanlight. Above, central round arched window. To right, a single sash. Left return has 2 sashes on each floor. Rear has a central sash, and above, another sash in a through-eaves dormer. To right, a projecting stack. To left, a single sash and a side wall stack. Attached outbuildings include toilets and stores with a hipped ventilator and lean-to- roofs, enclosed by a wall with terra cotta coping.
INTERIOR: Plain, with 2 rooms combined, original staircase with turned balusters, and several original 5-panel doors.

Listing NGR: SJ7011454923

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561860

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)