Cumbria College Of Art And Design The Cottage And Homeacres Cottage

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NY4057SW BRAMPTON ROAD 671-1/4/59 (North side) Cumbria College of Art and Design - The Cottage and Homeacres Cottage

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Reform school, now part of college. 1854 for George Head Head of Rickerby with later extensions to rear. English garden wall bond brickwork without plinth; dressings of calciferous sandstone. Steeply-pitched graduated greenslate roof with skylight at rear; original ridge brick chimney stacks. Single storey, single depth, 5 bays with right 2-bay extension. Brampton Road facade has projecting end gables, that at left with a canted bay window; all other windows are 2-light stone mullioned with elaborate patterned cast-iron tracery. Left return has a gable porch with a panelled door in stone surround. Rear doors and casement windows in brick reveals. INTERIOR has exposed hammer-beam trusses. This was built as the Cumberland Reformatory for boys; for further details and illustration see Cumberland News (1956). Homeacres Cottage at right is included for group value. (Cumberland News: 4 May 1956: P.10).

Listing NGR: NY4033757219