Shrewsbury School, Oldham'S Hall

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE ASHTON ROAD 653-1/4/84 (North West side) Shrewsbury School, Oldham's Hall

GV II

School house. 1911. By WA Forsyth. Brick with plain tiled roof. Two-and-a-half storeys, 12-window range asymmetrically planned. Simplified domestic Gothic style. Outer gabled wings advanced and paired off-central gables. Main entrance in return elevation of right-hand wing, subsidiary entrance towards centre. Advanced half-hipped gable to left, with tall wood mullioned and transomed window on each floor. 2-light mullioned and transomed windows in narrow range to left, and 3 tall dormers cut through the eaves line over. Advanced paired gables beyond, with stressed angle pilasters and mullioned and transomed windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights. Date on leaded rainwater head. Long range of 4 mullioned and transomed windows beyond, with 4 hipped dormer windows in the roof. Doorway in angle with advanced gable, moulded stone architrave with lunette over. Canted bay window with stone mullioned windows alongside. End gable with full-height canted bay window with stone mullioned and transomed windows and 3-light casement in gable apex above. Main entrance in side of this gable, with bolection-moulded architrave. Axial and end wall stacks, the end wall stacks linked to the roof by tiled gablets. A carefully articulated composition, exhibiting many of the best characteristics of Edwardian Free Style and Domestic Revival architecture.

Listing NGR: SJ4835712190