Former Peel School is a Grade II listed building in the Tamworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1992. School.

Former Peel School

WRENN ID: empty-copper-blackthorn
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Tamworth
Country: England
Date first listed: 28 February 1992
Type: School
Source: Historic England listing

Description

TAMWORTH

SK2004SW LICHFIELD STREET 670-1/6/109 (North side) Former Peel School

GV II

School, now part of housing development. 1850. By S.Smirke, for Sir Robert Peel P.M. Tudor style. Rectangular plan. Brick with blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings; tile roof with cresting. One storey; 3-window range. Ashlar-dressed offset buttresses and coped gables. 4-light double-hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows; central gablet with escutcheon to panel. Right return has 4-light transomed window under dripstone and relieving arch with quatrefoil above; left return similar, with 2 plaques recording history of building: date 1850 in blue brick flanking quatrefoil. Rear has small parallel range with 2 hipped dormers; C20 porch to re-entrant angle. Interior noted as having arch-braced roof trusses with tracery infill. (Buildings of England: N.Pevsner: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 278).

Listing NGR: SK2041604077

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