Bunbury Aldersey School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. School. 1 related planning application.
Bunbury Aldersey School
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bunbury Aldersey School, originally a grammar school for boys, was built in 1874 by J. Douglas and is now a primary school. It replaced an earlier school founded by Thomas Aldersey in 1594, located near the church. The building is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and is designed in the Gothic style. It is a single-storey structure with five bays and features a deep chamfered sandstone plinth.
The projecting entrance bay has a vertical panelled, studded door with false strap hinges, set within a stone-dressed opening that has a Tudor arch and ogee hood mould. Above the entrance, there is a gabled apex with stone coping and a finial, displaying the date and shields with the inscriptions "Alnus semper floreat" and "serve and obey." The windows are made up of metal fixed lights in stone mullion and transom designs, featuring cusped heads and leaded transom lights. Large double transom multi-light windows are present on the west and east gables. A terra cotta eaves dentil course supports a moulded cast iron gutter.
The roof features mid-roof lucarnes with twin lancet openings and an octagonal turret clad in slate. Stone copings and finials adorn the east and west gables. Inside, the hall roof boasts elaborate trusses with brackets supporting the collar purlin and four posts above the beam, while the ceiling is boarded. Plaques on the gate reference the Haberdashers Company, which owns the school, and Thomas Aldersey was a member of this company.
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