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Norfolk Road frontage, from one end ...
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... and from the other.
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Listing: Locally listed, approved November
2001. Built c.1910. Good example of transitional architecture
incorporating a Gothic frontage with Queen Anne style windows. The
rear is symmetrical displaying the beginning of neo-Georgian form.
The buildings form an important part of the character of the surrounding
area which consists of late Victorian terraced housing.
Comment: The buildings here occupy almost the
whole of an island site in a near-grid pattern of small terraced houses,
which seem to have been built in the 1890s on land which formed part of
the Graiseley Old Hall estate. These buildings, which are mostly
as near as could be to the pavement edge, do much to emphasise the
crowded nature of the area, in which some open areas are direly needed.
Currently one part is occupied by a primary school, as its temporary
home while its own home is rebuilt; and the rest by community uses.
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