Description

NZ 15 NE STANLEY SYKE LANE (North side)
Burnopfield
2/196 Former Leazes
4/10/86 Board School
GV II
School. 1893. Snecked sandstone with plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles. Jacobean style. One storey, 3:3:3 bays,
the 3 central bays lower and recessed. Canted central entrance porch containing
partly-glazed double door in architrave, with panel and pedimented shaped gable
above, projecting above eaves of 3-sided conical roof. Small sashes with glazing
bars in canted sides and on either side have flat stone lintels. End sections
have central high, shaped gables over paired, keyed round-headed windows, and
roundels in gable peaks; impost string of windows continues round corner
pilasters with high moulded coping; ball finials on pilasters and gables, one
missing. Inner returns have groups of 3 square-headed windows, the central
higher and breaking eaves under scrolled pediments; outer bays blank. All
windows have glazing bars and sloping stone sills. Steeply-pitched hipped
roofs over wings have conical-topped round metal ventilators.
Long left return in similar style. Lower classroom and cloakroom blocks at
rear.

Listing NGR: NZ1675356719

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533848

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)