Description

PRESTON

SD5429SW GRIMSHAW STREET
941-1/12/159 (East side)
Grimshaw Street School

GV II

School. Dated 1836 and 1845 at 1st floor of centre; with
addition of 1882. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone
dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan on north-south
axis, with short addition to north end, plus 1882 projecting
crosswing at south end. The main range is 2-storeys, 4:1:3
windows (originally 3:1:3, symmetrical, but extended by one
window to the left in 1845), the centre breaking forwards
slightly; with a stone plinth, 1st-floor sill-band, plain
frieze and moulded cornice. Tall windows on both floors, all
with raised sills and wedge lintels, including coupled windows
in the centre, and all with altered glazing; and at the
right-hand end a round-headed doorway with double roll-moulded
surround, imposts and fanlight (matching working class
domestic doorways of the earlier C19), under a stone plaque
inscribed "BOYS". The centre has a stone plaque at 1st floor
inscribed "ERECTED / 1836 / ENLARGED / 1845", and a long
upstand on the cornice with raised lettering "GRIMSHAW ST
SCHOOL". Roof with chimney at right-hand gable, hip over
extension at left end. The north gable wall has a short
set-back link to the church, forming an angle which has
elliptical-headed doorways linked at right-angles, with Tuscan
pilastered doorcases (matching middle-class domestic doorways
of the period), a stone plaque inscribed "GIRLS" over that in
the gable wall. The added south wing is single-storey, 5 bays,
with buttresses and coupled cusped arched windows.
INTERIOR: ground-floor has 3 lateral beams, all with iron rod
beneath, trapping a small wheel at each end (function not
known); longitudinal corridor to rear; added wing is hall with
arch-braced roof.
Forms group with associated United Reformed Church (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5449829384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568984

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