List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: PRIOR PURSGLOVE COLLEGE, INCLUDING MASTER'S HOUSE, GYMNASIUM AND ASSEMBLY HALL
List Entry Number: 1159503
Location
PRIOR PURSGLOVE COLLEGE, INCLUDING MASTER'S HOUSE, GYMNASIUM AND ASSEMBLY HALL, CHURCH WALK
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Redcar and Cleveland
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Guisborough
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 25-Apr-1984
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 59942
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
NZ6116 GUISBOROUGH CHURCH WALK
7/74 Prior Pursglove
College,
including
Master's House,
gymnasium and
assembly hall.
II
Sixth Form College (originally: grammar school and school house).
1887. Alfred Waterhouse. Dressed sandstone ground floor, red
brick first floor; yellow terracotta dressings. Westmorland
slate roofs in diminishing courses; clay ridge crestings. 2
storeys. Tudor. Plinth. Mullioned and transomed casement windows
throughout. Chamfered string band between floors. First floor
sills continued as moulded string. Stepped brick corbelled
verges.
School: rectangular plan; asymmetrical. Off-centre (R.H.S.)
gabled dormer over slight projecting bay on corbels with 3-light
window over moulded drop-arched entrance passage, with granite
spur stones. To L.H.S. of entrance: 4 6-light ground floor
windows, 6 single lights to first floor. To R.H.S. : 2 cross-
windows to ground floor, 2 2-light windows above. 3 stacks.
Timber clock cupola on ridge, to R.H.S., with shallow copper
dome. Tablet above entrance arch records: "Founded in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth AD 1561 Guisborough Grammar School re-erected
in the reign of Queen Victoria AD 1887". Carved stones from
original buildings were built into foundations.
House: adjoins E. side of school. Balanced asymmetry. 3 bays:
L & R being wider than centre and gabled. L.H.S. projects
forward. 6-light windows to ground floor, 3-light to first
floor, single light to attic. Moulded strings across eaves line
of gables. Central doorway with moulded architrave and
shouldered fanlight. 2-light window above. Slate-roofed gabled
timber porch on turned shafts on stone dwarf-wall to plinth
height. Similar treatment to E. elevation. The listing
includes the gymnasium and assembly hall adjoining the N.& W.
sides of the school. Erected 1898 by Waterhouse in same style
and materials.
(N. Pevsner, ".... North Riding", 1966, p179; & B.J.D.
Harrison & G. Dixon (Eds) "Guisborough Before 1900", 1981, pp.
144-148 & 225-227).
Listing NGR: NZ6168316214
Selected Sources
Books and journalsHarrison, B J D, Dixon, G, Guisborough Before 1900, (1981), 144-8
Harrison, B J D, Dixon, G, Guisborough Before 1900, (1981), 225-7
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 179
Map
National Grid Reference: NZ 61731 16187
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