Description

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SD83SW
906-1/3/171

BURNLEY, Burnley Wood,
TODMORDEN ROAD (West side),
No.71

(Formerly listed as Burnley Curriculum Development Centre)

29/09/77

GV II

Villa, later education centre. Early to mid C19; altered.
Chisel-dressed squared sandstone, slate roofs on 2 levels.
L-plan formed by a double-depth double-fronted main block with
a double-pile service wing attached at the rear right-hand
corner.
The main range is 2 storeys and 3 windows, symmetrical, with a
plinth, raised quoins, moulded gutter cornice and coped
gables; the central doorway has an architrave of engaged
Tuscan columns with a plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a
panelled door with overlight; the windows are 4-pane unhorned
sashes with plain surrounds. Gable chimneys. The right-hand
gable wall has a tall round-headed stair window with
Y-tracery. The set-back service wing, 2 lower storeys with a
2-window front, has a doorway to the left with plain surround,
panelled door and overlight with diagonal glazing bars, a
12-pane sashed window above this, a small window to the right
of the door and one blind window on each floor to the right;
its right-hand return side has 2 gables and 4 windows. The
rear of the main range has (inter alia) an unusual parapet
with blind windows suggesting an attic storey.
INTERIOR: entrance hall and passage floored with encaustic
tiles in buff, brown, blue and white geometric patterns;
doglegged staircase with slender cast-iron balusters;
otherwise, altered.
Forms a group with No.73 (qv) and No.75 (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8483832003

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539609

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey