Blue Coat School (Front Block) is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. School. 7 related planning applications.
Blue Coat School (Front Block)
- WRENN ID
- pitched-gutter-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WALSALL MB HANCH PLACE SP 01 98 SE 16/44 Blue Coat School (front block)
- II
House, now school. c1830 by John Forster. Stucco with slate roof. A symmetrical composition of two storeys with two bays on each side of three- bay two-storey bow. Facade has pilasters flanking outer pairs of bays, and a cornice with blocking course. In front of the bow are four giant Ionic columns. All the first floor windows interrupt the architrave. Above each column of the bay there is a laurel wreath on the frieze. Windows sashed with no glazing bars. On the ground floor the middle window of the bow has an architrave and the outer windows have French windows with margin lights. The left-hand bay now has a first floor door to an iron fire escape. The outer pair of bays both have separate pitched roofs. Formerly known as "The Terrace". Illustrated in VCH, Staffordshire, Vol 7, p 176.
Listing NGR: SP0174498019
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