Description

Woodhouse and Morley, architects, dated 1887. Single storey

over basement, cruciform plan. Brick with ashlar dressings.

East elevation. 4 arched arcade supported by Ionic columns,

flanked by pilastered bays each with pilastered mullion and

transom windows with bracketted cills and aprons. Dentilled

eaves cornice and balustrade with urns on dies, and carved

relief panels above outer bays with pediments. Geometric

glazing to upper lights of windows. Side elevations (north &

south) similarly detailed but 2 centre bays advanced with

Venetian windows, centre lights raised through balustrade and pedimented. Projecting corniced stack to centre of north

elevation. Porch in re-entrant angles to west of advanced

bays have cast iron lamp standards that to north incomplete.

Balustrade continues round north porch. Rear pavilion

similarly detailed with pedimented Venetian windows to gables

and 6 transomed windows to long wall. Pedimented hall rises

in centre lit by side lunettes at side and round headed

windows at end. Carved date stone and panel with name of

school to front gable. Slate roofs, some piended, with brick

corniced stacks. Roof of central hall has 2 ventilators and

pilastered and domed lantern.

Interior has much variegated tile work mosaic floors and

various beamed roofs, largely hidden by later decoration.

Statement of Interest

Built as Ferguslie Thread Works Half-Time School

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17843390

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)