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school — Cathedral Road

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Detached three- or five-bay single-storey technical school, built 1932-3; dated 1933; extant 1942, on a U-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey "bas-relief" breakfront with seven-bay single-storey side elevations. Now in alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door opening in square-headed "bas-relief" recess below cut-limestone date stone ("1933") with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement centred on square-headed window openings (end bays) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows centred on six-over-nine timber sash windows having overlights. Interior including central vestibule; square-headed door opening into corridor with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Set back from line of street.

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