Description

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SK0393NW VICTORIA STREET
921-1/14/34 (East side)
27/01/78 RE North & Co Ltd and attached
railings and gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
VICTORIA STREET
(East side)
Premises occupied by Richard E North)

GV II

Church sunday school, now factory. 1881 with C20 alterations.
Coursed millstone grit with polychromatic ashlar dressings and
Welsh slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Crenellated
stone stacks.
STYLE: Venetian Gothic Revival.
PLAN: L-plan with south-west corner tower and porch.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Street front has 4 windows arranged 3:1
with tower to right. To right projecting gabled porch with
pointed polychromatic arch doorway with flanking columns and
ornate double doors with boarded fanlight. Tall square tower
has single 2-light pointed arch window, and top stage with
double pointed arches supported on columns to each face with
single window and tiny window above to each arch. Square
pyramidal hipped roof with ball finial. To left 2 pairs of
pointed polychromatic arch windows with single columns between
and pointed relieving arches above. Beyond to left single
pointed polychromatic arch window. Above flush ashlar band and
similar window arrangement with continuous sill band, though
without relieving arches.
Left return has 6 windows arranged 5:1. To right single
window, taller gabled wing with paired pointed polychromatic
arch windows with column between and under single pointed
relieving arch. Above similar pair of pointed polychromatic
arch windows with column between. To left 5 pairs of flat
headed windows with plain sashes, those at either end with
doorway to left, and above 5 pointed polychromatic arch
windows.
Right return has windows with flat headed lintels, and blocked
door to tower. Rear lean-to addition.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to front low boundary wall with
chamfered ashlar coping topped with ornate cast-iron railings
with trefoil finials to uprights and to right gateway with
square ashlar gate piers with chamfered corners and pyramidal
caps and pair of ornate cast-iron gates with trefoil finials
to uprights and dog bars.

Listing NGR: SK0338293828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664150

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