Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent. (21a) School of Art, Queen Street, Burslem

Burslem School of Art
pen drawing by Neville Malkin - July 1974

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Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

School of Art, Queen Street, Burslem

Area Burslem	Street Queen Street	Heritage No. 21a	Grade II	Date Listed 15 March 1993
Building: School of Art
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ8649NE
Description: circa 1905, by A. R. Wood, brick and terracotta with tiled roof, 2 story

School of Art, Queen Street, Burslem

photo: 2002

School of Art. Circa 1905. Brick and terracotta with tiled roof.

2 storeys, 3 bays. Outer bays have pedimented shallow gables and flanking blocks terminating in castellated turrets. Triple windows with segmentally arched terracotta surrounds to ground floor, massive segmentally arched studio buildings above, with terracotta keyblocks and coat of arms at apex.

Shallow pilasters in flanking towers. Central doors in bowed portico with Ionic columns carrying entablature with embossed lettering and balustrade over. Large tripartite window above, divided by slight Ionic piers.

Balustraded parapet runs between the turrets which flank the outer gables.

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Queen Street is named after the pottery ware Wedgwood made for Queen Charlotte in 1765.

Opposite the School of Art is the Wedgwood Institute which stands on the site of the Brick House pottery works.

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