Description

BURNLEY

SD83SW ACCRINGTON ROAD
906-1/3/2 (North side)
29/09/77 Woodtop Primary School, with
forecourt walls, piers, railings &
overthrow

II

Church of England school, with forecourt walls and gateway.
1873; altered. Snecked sandstone rubble, slate roofs with
pierced crested ridge tiles (damaged). Gothic style, with
steeply-pitched roofs. H-plan plus rear wing.
EXTERIOR: single storey, 1:3:1 windows. The main range has a
gabled porch in the angle to the right, with a 2-centred
arched doorway in a segmental-pointed chamfered surround with
hood-mould, and a banner over this with raised lettering
"INFANTS"; three 2-light windows with cusped lights; and a
skylight in the front slope of the roof. The re-entrant of the
left wing has a 2-centred arched doorway with a recessed door
and a hood-mould with deep returned ends and carved stops; the
gables of both wings have large 2-centred arched windows, that
to the left of 4 arched lights with circular and multifoil
tracery and that to the right of 3 cusped lights with 3
quatrefoils in the head. The 3-window right-hand return wall
of this wing has a gabled centre with a 2-centred arched
2-light window, other windows like those in the main range,
and a chimney at the rear gable.
Rear in similar but simpler style.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt enclosed by a low wall of
sandstone rubble with chamfered coping, carrying bar railings
with dog-bars, and a pair of square gate piers opposite the
porch with cast-iron gates and an elliptical overthrow which
has a square lamp holder at the apex.

Listing NGR: SD8252832355

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273533

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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