Former St Josephs School

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SK38NW HOWARD ROAD 784-1/5/442 (South East side) Former St Joseph's School

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Roman Catholic school, now architects' offices. Dated 1889, converted and restored 1990. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched plain tile roofs with 2 large gable and 2 side wall stacks, all coped, and 2 gabled louvred ventilators. Renaissance Revival style. H-plan. EXTERIOR: ground floor sillband, coped gables. Single storey plus basement; 6 window range. Windows are mainly stone mullioned cross casements with glazing bars. Central bay has broken segmental pediment with pedimented dormer containing a niche and figure. Below, porch with shouldered coped gable and chamfered stone doorcase with cornice on brackets, and panelled double door. Above the door, a dated panel. Outside, steps with ramped coped balustrade walls. In each return, a small window. Beyond, on each side, a 2-light window. Side bays have a large through-eaves dormer with a 4-light window. Under the right window, a 2-light basement window. Wings have shouldered round topped gables containing an oval glazing bar window with hoodmould. Below, a 4-light window with cornice on brackets. Right wing has a smaller 4-light window to the basement. Left return has four 2-light casements. INTERIOR has central hall with plaster groin vault, divided by original glazed wooden screens.

Listing NGR: SK3356588152