School Of Arts And Crafts

NEW STREET 1. 1594 (South Side) School of Arts and Crafts SU 1429 NW 3/538 II GV 2. The right hand part, former Literary Institution, built in 1871 by A C Bothams in free Gothic style. The left hand part a later annexe in Tudor style probably by same architect circa 1900. The former Institution has a narrow 3 storey, 3 bay front. Red brick with blue ceramic brick bandssacross front and carried up in pointed arches above windows, tympani decorated with grey brick herring-bone. 3 gables, the centre one large and steep pitched, deep eaves, bargeboards. 3 windows to upper floors, large to centre, paired and tripartite, brick pilasters and rendered colonettes dividing. Ground floor has large central tripartite window with elaborate figured capitals to and pilasters. Flanking slightly ogee arched doorways with foliate capped columns, right hand now a window. The "Tudor" annexe is also of 3 storeys, brick ground floor, plaster and timber framed upper floors. Jettied centre bay with full width wood mullioned windows. Wood pediments over outer first floor windows. Overhanging eaves.

Nos 21 to 49 (odd), the School of Arts and Crafts, Nos 61, 63 and Nos 67 to 75 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1434929776