Woodtop Primary School, with Forecourt Walls, Piers, Railings and Overthrow, Trinity, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 (Grade II)

BURNLEY

SD83SW ACCRINGTON ROAD 906-1/3/2 (North side) 29/09/77 Woodtop Primary School, with forecourt walls, piers, railings & overthrow

Church of England school, with forecourt walls and gateway. 1873; altered. Snecked sandstone rubble, slate roofs with pierced crested ridge tiles (damaged). Gothic style, with steeply-pitched roofs. H-plan plus rear wing. EXTERIOR: single storey, 1:3:1 windows. The main range has a gabled porch in the angle to the right, with a 2-centred arched doorway in a segmental-pointed chamfered surround with hood-mould, and a banner over this with raised lettering “INFANTS”; three 2-light windows with cusped lights; and a skylight in the front slope of the roof. The re-entrant of the left wing has a 2-centred arched doorway with a recessed door and a hood-mould with deep returned ends and carved stops; the gables of both wings have large 2-centred arched windows, that to the left of 4 arched lights with circular and multifoil tracery and that to the right of 3 cusped lights with 3 quatrefoils in the head. The 3-window right-hand return wall of this wing has a gabled centre with a 2-centred arched 2-light window, other windows like those in the main range, and a chimney at the rear gable. Rear in similar but simpler style. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt enclosed by a low wall of sandstone rubble with chamfered coping, carrying bar railings with dog-bars, and a pair of square gate piers opposite the porch with cast-iron gates and an elliptical overthrow which has a square lamp holder at the apex.