Thomas Rotherham College

SK49SW ROTHERHAM MOORGATE ROAD (west side, off) 5/57 Thomas Rotherham College II College. Built as Independent Theological College, became Rotherham Grammar School, now 6th-form college. 1876 by W.G. Habershon and A.R. Pite of London, contractor L.B. Moore of Bedford (Rotherham Advertiser). Coursed, rock-faced sandstone, ashlar limestone dressings, red tile roofs. 5-storey tower flanked by 2-storey, 4-bay side-wings; 2 additional bays to left, each set forward; 3 contemporary wings to rear with extensive later additions, mostly in keeping. Tudor and Gothic Revival details. Tower : quoins, chamfered and moulded plinths. Offset angle buttresses to lower part. Tall ogee-headed lights and small offset buttresses with gablets flank central door in pointed arch with colonettes and geometric-panelled spandrels. String course and corbelling beneath embattled, 2-storey oriel window with transomed 5-light window to each floor; 2nd-floor window shorter and with apron panels having blank shields, all lights cusped. 3rd-floor string course with buttresses to right rising as an octagonal turret; 2 rectangular openings with hoodmoulds. 4th-floor string course beneath recessed 4-light window with hoodmould. Moulded band beneath embattled parapet. Left return of tower has 2 projecting, lateral stacks; right return has two 2-light windows to 3rd floor with relieving arches and hoodmoulds, 2 similar 4th-floor windows with hoodmoulds. Large embattled, octagonal turret to rear right corner. Side wings : plinth, quoins. Each bay has moulded cross windows with each upper light divided into 2 cusped openings. Relieving arches to ground floor. Each lst-floor window set beneath a coped gable and linked by a string course with gargoyle and a section of embattled parapet. Moulded gable copings with end stacks, that to right with tall castellated pot. Additional bays to far left : less ornate and with attic-storey lit from front gables, lower roofs than adjacent side-wing. Bay to left wider and with embattled, single-storey canted-bay window; transomed 3-light window to 1st floor with string course rising as hoodmould; 2-light attic window with relieving arch. Bay to right has cross window to lower floors, single light to attic. Left return : pointed doorway in 2-storey projection. Right return : simpler elevation in keeping with main facade. Rotherham Advertiser, Sept. 23, 1876 (details of opening ceremony).

Listing NGR: SK4328491614