Description

BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND GISBURN ROAD (north side) SD 78 49

13/32 Bolton-by-Bowland Church of England Primary School and School House - GV II

School, 1874 by Paley and Austin. Limestone rubble with sandstone dressing and slate roof. School of one storey. West facade has cross-wing at left-hand end having chamfered mullioned and transomed window with hood and with 3 upper lights and 5 lower lights. Further right are 3 8-light mullioned and transomed windows. Adjoining at the north is an addition of 1906 in a similar style. South facade has gable of school to left with bellcote and with a window similar to that of the cross-wing of the west facade. The entrance is to the right, into a porch linking the school with school house. The door has a chamfered surround with Tudor-arched head, 3 mullioned lights over, and inscribed date '1874'. The school house to the right is of 2 storeys with hipped roofs. At the right in a cross-wing with a 2-storey timber canted bay window, having a band of slate hanging, and rising above eaves level with its own hipped roof. The main part of the house facade has an 8-light chamfered mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor and 4-light and 3-light mullioned windows on the 1st floor. In the angle with the cross-wing is a porch, partly timbered and under a slate roof. Plans deposited in the Lancashire Record Office (PR 3047), made by Paley and Austin and dated 1870, show a building almost identical in plan to the existing school, but differing in some of the details of the elevation.

Listing NGR: SD7885049392

External Links

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