Former School Of Art is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1991. Former school, offices. 2 related planning applications.
Former School Of Art
- WRENN ID
- still-panel-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1991
- Type
- Former school, offices
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ8645 LONDON ROAD 613-1/9/133 (North West side) 09/04/91 Former School of Art
GV II
Former Art School, now offices. c1853. By Murray and Pugin for Mintons. Brick with stone bands and dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-storeyed, 7 bays, the central bay advanced. Entrance in central bay in architrave with polygonal shafts and stilted arch with relief panels in the spandrels. Windows to each side are 4-pane sashes with stilted arched stone heads and keystones which form console brackets for projecting balconette with wrought-iron railings. Upper mullioned and transomed windows have quatrefoil tracery in gothic arched heads. Facade is enriched with tiled bands depicting stylised birds and foliage, and there is a continuous foliated string course, and hood moulds to upper windows. Moulded stone console brackets and foliate panels as eaves cornice. Upper storey was formerly studio, and survives intact. Built as memorial for Herbert Minton.
Listing NGR: SJ8755245018
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