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Stoke School of Art
Stoke School of Art
pen drawing by Neville Malkin - Feb 1975

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Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Herbert Minton Building (former Art School), Stoke


Area
Stoke
Street
London Road
Heritage No.
133 A
Grade
II
Date Listed
09 April 1991
Building: Herbert Minton Building (former Art School)
Location: STOKE ON TRENT LONDON ROAD, Stoke
Description:  c.1853 by Murray and Pugin for Minton's, Brick with Stone Bands

Herbert Minton Building (former Art School)
Herbert Minton Building (former Art School)


Former Art School, now offices. Circa 1853, by Murray and Pugin for Mintons.

Brick with stone bands and dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-storeyed, 7 bays, the central bay advanced. Entrance in central bay in architrave with polygonal shafts and stilted arch with relief panels in the spandrels. Windows to each side are 4-pane sashes with stilted arched stone heads and keystones which form console brackets for projecting balconette with wrought iron railings.

Upper mullioned and transomed windows have quatrefoil tracery in gothic arched heads. Facade is enriched with tiled bands depicting stylised birds and foliage, and there is a continuous foliated string course, and hood moulds to upper windows. Moulded stone console brackets and foliate panels as eaves cornice.

The upper storey was formerly a studio, and survives intact. Built as a memorial for the potter Herbert Minton.

 


Upper mullioned and transomed windows have quatrefoil tracery in gothic arched heads.
Upper mullioned and transomed windows
have quatrefoil tracery in gothic arched heads.

 


 

photos: Steve Birks  2001


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