22, Tower Street

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TQ3081SW TOWER STREET 798-1/105/1653 (North East side) 15/01/73 No.22

GV II

Board School, now converted to offices. c1874, altered late C20. Yellow stock brick with red brick and stone dressings. Steep slated roofs with gabled end bays, tall brick chimney-stacks and parapets. EXTERIOR: mainly 4 storeys. Not quite symmetrical composition of 2:1:3:1:2 windows with projecting end bays; 5 storey bell tower bay to left of entrance. Moulded floor strings. Central 3 bays divided by pilasters supporting a parapet of blind panels; 3rd and 4th floors set back with late C20 glazed wall and curved roof below original lunettes. Main central entrance with stucco doorcase of paired banded pilasters carrying an entablature and rectangular overdoor with pilasters, flanked by ball finials, supporting a scrolled pediment with ball finial; round-arched doorway with panelled door and fanlight. Most windows round-arched with keystones; those flanking overdoor have gauged brick flat arches. 4th floor left hand bay, window with apron of 3 carved stone plaques with floral and foliar enrichment and inscribed "For LSB"; left hand bay, window with similar apron inscribed "1874". Right hand return has chimney-stack rising full height of building with 2 pedimented features. To left of chimney at 3rd floor height, a carved stone plaque, in rubbed red brick surround, depicting an angel showing a book to 2 young children. INTERIOR: altered.

Listing NGR: TQ3002081034