Cotton College

SK 04 NE 4/81 3/1/67

COTTON C.P. COTTON Cotton College (Formerly listed as "Cotton Hall")

GV II

House, now school. Late C18 with later alterations, and additions of 1846-8 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1874-5, 1886-7 and 1931-2. C18 house of red brick with painted ashlar dressings and slate covered Mansard roof; additions by Pugin in ashlar and in red and brown brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs with coped verges; later C19 additions in ashlar with edged herringbone tooling and shaped tile roof with plain tile bands and coped verges; brick stacks. Symmetrical C18 house with Gothic style additions; C18 nucleus aligned north-west / south-east facing south-west, extended to the north-east in 1846-8, a wing of 1874-5 aligned north-east/south-west projects south-west from the north-west end of the C18 building, extension of 1886-7 aligned north-west/south-east attached to the north-west. Central C18 block, extensions of 1846-8 to the right, wing of 1874-5 to the left. C18 block: 3-storey range with attic to the left, 2-storey range with attic to the right under the same roofline, central semi- octagonal projection of 2 storeys and attic with pointed hipped roof; 4:3:3 bays. Left-hand range: central straight joint with groins of unequal length showing that the 2 right hand bays are earlier, glazing bar sashes with horns and wedge lintels, the second floor windows have cambered heads; 2-leaf half-glazed door to the right with Tuscan portico on fluted columns. Central projection: ground floor windows are glazing bar sashes, the first-floor windows are 4-pane sashes. Right-hand range: first floor storey band and ground floor window sill band, glazing bar sashes, those to second floor have cambered heads. Corbelled eaves and attic dormers throughout. Additions of 1846-8; in 2 parts, 3 storey brick block of 3 gabled bays to the left, low ashlar building to the right. Left hand block: 6-light mullioned and transomed windows to ground and first floors, 2 -storey bay window to the left with hipped roof, second floor casements. Right-hand block: main range of one storey and attic and 3 bays, the gabled left hand bay contains a segmental pointed door and a pair of Carnarvon arch lights over, gable capped by a ball finial; slightly lower central gable with single-storey passage building extending obliquely from below it and forming a link with the Church of St. Wilfrid (q.v.). Wing of 1874-5: 2 storeys and attic on high basement; 6 bays with buttresses at the divisions and a square tower to the right with chamfered corner; 3- light chamfer mullioned basement windows, square head ground floor window with 2 trefoil headed lights, high transom and supermullions, segmental pointed second floor windows with trefoil headed lights and supermullions containing a single reticulation, gabled dormers with shaped barge boards. Interior: Victorian staircase with turned balusters. B.O.E. P. 109.

Listing NGR: SK0656746422