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Windle Building — College Road

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Windle Building — College Road
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Detached nine-bay two-storey faculty building, built c.1880, having lower recessed four-bay portion and advanced gable-fronted end-bays to front (east) elevation, three-bay section placed at right angle and various flat-roofed extensions to rear (west) elevation. Incorporating earlier building, built c.1850. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone chimneystacks placed on eaves course, southern chimneystack extending to create false machicolation, cast-iron rainwater goods and cut limestone eaves course. Roughly dressed limestone walls with cut limestone quoins. Single-, paired and tripartite pointed arch window openings with cut limestone surrounds and sills to timber casement windows. Pointed arch window to west elevation having cut limestone hood moulding and limestone tracery. Pointed arch door openings to east elevation with cut limestone surrounds to double-leaf timber panelled doors with overlights. Located within university campus, to west of quadrangle.

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