Girls High School

GLOUCESTER

SO81NW DENMARK ROAD 844-1/3/104 (North side) 12/03/73 Girls' High School

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Girls' high school. c1900, later C20 additions and alterations. By WB Wood. Red Brick with dressed stone details, tiled roofs with gabled dormers, brick stacks. Northern Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attics. 3:6:3 fenestration pattern to facade with gabled outer wings flanking recessed outer block. Centre: flat-roofed projections to ground floor with segmental-arched lights flanking gabled porch with "GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL" in cartouche and chamfered arch of 3 orders dying into splayed jambs and with angled pilasters; first floor articulated into recessed bays by pilasters; 3-light double-transomed windows with segmental-arched lights; crenellated parapet with arched links to stepped merlons; gabled dormers with 3-light casements; louvred ventilators. Wings have tall segmental-arched casements with small-paned timber casements and ashlar imposts; ground-floor left is blank. Right and left-hand returns each have tall stair tower with crenellated parapet set behind more modest but similar porches, to Seniors on right and Juniors on left. Parallel-gabled rear wing, with cross-gabled rear elevation then flat-roofed range. INTERIOR: not inspected, but known to be complete with original joinery and stained and patterned glass. A most distinctive and richly-detailed design, interpreting with flair and imagination the Free Style commonly adopted for Board School designs from the later C19.

Listing NGR: SO8379819388