College Of Further Education

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9173SE PARK LANE 886-1/12/164 (East side) 17/03/77 College of Further Education (Formerly Listed as: PARK LANE (East side) College of Further Education (original block only))

GV II

College of further education. Main block of 1877 with later extensions and incorporating an early C19 house. A separate block to the rear of the main Park Lane building faces Park Green. Dated 1900. The 1900 block now incorporates an earlier building, probably originally a dwelling, but substantially altered on conversion. Uncoursed freestone with Welsh slate roofs, the earlier house of brick with stone dressings. EXTERIOR: main building to Park Lane is 2 storeys, 7-window range with central entrance bay advanced with steep dormer gable over. Projecting entrance feature with inner round archway carried on polished granite shafts and steep outer gable carried on corbels. Paired lancets in steep relieving arch to first floor above. Flanking windows separated by gableted buttresses at ground-floor level are of 8-panes with wood transoms. Moulded stone panels over. Stilted arched windows to first floor. Corbel table, coped gables each side. Single-storey extension set back to the right, dated 1913. 3 windows each side of stilted arched entrance door in advanced gable. Block to rear 2-storeyed; wide canted gable to Park Green with paired lancet windows in each face beneath dormer gables. Plate traceried windows to first floor. Entrance in east elevation: doorway with overlight flanked by 2-pane windows, inscribed over entrance 'Technical and Science School 1900'. Rear extension of this range is top-lit for studios. Earlier house incorporated in 1900 block: 2- and 3-storeyed, 3-window range with entrance in lower left-hand bay. Doorway in moulded stone architrave with 12-pane sash window above. Taller right-hand block has full-height canted bay with tripartite sash window to ground floor and 16-pane sash windows on each floor above. Moulded cornice with parapet incorporating raised central panel. Higher parallel range to rear, symmetrically arranged with 3 gables.

Listing NGR: SJ9179273225