School

BIRSTALL

SK 50 NE SCHOOL LANE (North Side)

5/43 School

II

School, 1860, in Puginian gothic style by W. Millican. Granite rubble, with decorative bands of ashlar with brick. Swithland slate roof and coped gables. A long low single storey, with one large gable that interupts the eaves line. Towards the left of the elevation, an archway in shouldered stone architrave that just cuts the eaves gives on to a recessed porch, in which to left and right are 2 doors with shouldered wood cases. Right of this this, 2 large quatrefoil openings just beneath the eaves in stone. Right again is the large coped gable, ashlar containing a blank arch in stone and brick, a continuous line without capitals. One blank circle in its apex, and the date. Paired archways to ground floor, with shouldered architraves and squat central marble column with foliate capital and deep base. On the roof of the gable is a small and graceful cupola, timberwork with a lead fleche. Right of the gable 2 more quatrefoil openings, and a buttress. 2 dormers in the roof one each side of the gable. North east side wall contains a large stone and brick trefoiled archway surrounding a 3 lancet window with quatrefoil above. There is a trefoiled opening in the gable apex.

Listing NGR: SK5953608903