Holy Trinity School

HOGHTON PRESTON ROAD SD 62 NW 2/146 Holy Trinity School - GV II

School, now house. 1838 rebuilding of school founded by Sir Charles Hoghton in 1709; enlarged 1873; altered. Coursed sandstone, slate roof. Three bays and 2 storeys with large single-storey wing on each side. Tudor style; 1st floor band, buttresses (diagonal at the corners), recessed mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hoodmoulds: in each bay one 5-light window at ground floor and two 2-light windows above; at north gable a gabled 2-storey porch with moulded arched doorway and a carved stone tablet above showing a bull and a griffon. On east side the single storey wing has a prominent side-wall chimney stack with offsets and coupled octagonal flues with moulded caps, a 2-light window to the right of this, and in the gable wall a very large 5-light mullioned window, a single-light opening in the apex; in the angle is a lean-to porch to the main range with a moulded Tudor-arched doorway, a window in the side wall, one window to the left and 2 above, like those at front. All gables have stone coping with kneelers and apex finials. (Re-located datestone in garden wall states that wing was added 1873 by Sir H de H). Included for group value with Church of the Holy Trinity on opposite side of road.

Listing NGR: SD6156425912