Description

KIRKHAM POULTON STREET
SD 43 SW
9/29 Trustee Savings Bank
-
- II

Former girls' charity school, now banking hall, 1860. Brick (in Flemish
bond) with sand-stone dressings, axial stacks and coped gables. Gothic
Revival. Single storey schoolroom to left of front door and (?)
school-mistress' house to right, with broad archway for passage to
back garden at far right. Doorway has a two-centre arch under a hoodmould
and a glazed tympanum divided into three by mullions. Central bay between
buttresses has to left of door a 7-light window with steeply pointed cusped
lights under a continuous hoodmould. Left-hand bay has a similar window of
2-lights. Mistress' house has a gable and a gabled dormer to the window
above the side arch. The gable facade has, on the ground floor, 2 lancets
with hoodmoulds, between which stands an engaged semi-octagonal pier which
carries a semi-circular stone first-floor oriel with 3 lights similar to
those in the school room. History: Built at the expense of
Thomas Langton Birley of Carr Hill for the girls' charity school, founded
in 1760 on another site.

Listing NGR: SD4249532132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26644254

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