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Latitude: 51.5596 / 51°33'34"N
Longitude: -1.7796 / 1°46'46"W
OS Eastings: 415378
OS Northings: 184547
OS Grid: SU153845
Mapcode National: GBR YRJ.HM
Mapcode Global: VHB3M.32K7
Plus Code: 9C3WH65C+R5
Entry Name: Clarence Street School
Listing Date: 4 December 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389600
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488288
ID on this website: 101389600
Location: Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1
County: Swindon
Electoral Ward/Division: Eastcott
Parish: Central Swindon South
Built-Up Area: Swindon
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Swindon New Town
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
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1097/0/10025 CLARENCE STREET
04-DEC-01 Clarence Street School
GV II
Board school; in use as council offices. 1895; for Swindon School Board; altered late C20. Red brick with stone dressings. Plain tile roof with elaborate gables. Brick axial and gable end stacks with stone strings and cornices.
PLAN: Large rectangular plan building with projecting corners, small entrances on the north and south sides and first floor classrooms open to the roof.
Dutch Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. 2:12:2 bay west front, the projecting end bays and the centre three bays have elaborate Dutch gables, the centre with moulded terracotta panel with date 1895 inscribed frieze and carved head in medallion below, the three bays to left and right of centre half-hipped, ground floor tall segmental arch windows with keystones and panelled aprons, the outer bays with hood moulds; moulded stone string courses; tall round-arch second floor windows with keystones, moulded cill courses and panelled aprons; large sashes with glazing bars in top sash and fanlights over centre windows. North and south sides, central recessed gables with similar tall sashes and projecting flanking wings with stone portals on north side and moulded brick portals on south side. East elevation similar to west but with plainer gables.
INTERIOR: First floor classrooms open to elaborate roof trusses; some classrooms have inserted suspended ceilings and partitions.
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