Creswell Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the Bolsover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1989. School. 4 related planning applications.
Creswell Junior School
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolsover
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1989
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 57 SW 5/120
PARISH OF ELMTON WITH CRESWELL ELMTON ROAD, CRESWELL (South Side) Creswell Junior School
II
School. 1912 by G.H. Widdows. Red brick with plain tile roofs. Eight brick ridge stacks. Single storey. V-shaped plan, radiating from an octagonal hall. The octagonal hall has a pyramid roof with small lantern at the top. Lean-to arcaded passage at ground floor with row of gables above. Segment-headed windows. The wings are of twelve bays, terminating in gabled pavilions. The pavilions have a tripartite arrangement of large 3-light centre window with timber mullions and transoms, flanked by single light transomed windows. The centre window has a round-arched tympanum with herringbone brickwork. The bays to the left are arranged 3-3-3. The centre window of each bay is of three lights, with two transoms, and rises into a dormer with hipped roof. The flanking windows are of 2-lights with one transom. The inside of the V has similar treatment to the pavilions and continuous covered arcades. Flat-roofed dormers. Additional V range of buildings within the outer V, not of special interest. Widdows was one of the leading architects of his generation in the field of the planning and design of schools.
Listing NGR: SK5234074218
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