Library Block, Nelson Thomlinson School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. School, library.
Library Block, Nelson Thomlinson School
- WRENN ID
- buried-rampart-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1967
- Type
- School, library
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NY 2548 WIGTON LONGMOOR LANE (North side) Wigton
14/79 Library block, Nelson Thomlinson School 1/4/67 II
Grammar School now library block of comprehensive school. Dated and inscribed over entrance NELSON SCHOOL WIGTON FOUNDED AD 1896 with coat of arms; probably by C.J. Ferguson. Red sandstone ashlar. Steeply pitched graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and square stone chimney stack; square wooden cupola with pointed spire and lucarnes. Large 2-storey building in U-shape. Off-centre large canted bay stone-mullioned window, with leaded panes, projects above eaves with shaped parapet. Entrance to left has stone architrave. Further large stone-mullioned windows with leaded panes. Projecting 2-storey gabled extension to left has similar windows. Lower gabled extension to right has porch with inscription and date. Further contemporary gabled extensions to right have stone-mullioned windows. C20 extensions are of no interest.
Listing NGR: NY2584348027
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