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Description: Luddenden Junior Church of England School

Address: Formerly Luddenden Junior School 26 High Street Luddenden Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 6QE

Grade: II

Group detail: High Street (west side), Luddenden

Full description:
School. 1825, enlarged 1856, restored and extended 1928 (date plaques), further extended mid C20. Coursed, squared watershot stone; stone slate roof. 2 storeys with basement. 2 x 6 + 3 + 3 bays. Gable (road) front: openings have plain stone surrounds. Basement: right hand bay has 3 doorways, one blocked, the other 2 with old board doors the lintels inscribed 'MIDGLEY' and 'WARLEY' (gave access to 2 lock ups for the use of the respective townships (which meet at Luddenden Brook)). Ground floor: two 3-light windows with wider central lights. 1st floor: 2 Venetian windows, the arched lights with keystones and imposts. A panel below each window, that to right recording foundation of school, that to left its enlargement. Oculus in gable. Gable stack. Extension on left not of special interest. Right return: 6 left hand bays: on right blocked doorway with tie-stones, now with window; to its left 5 square windows. Above are 6 tall windows with tie-stones, all windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting cills. Table; plain gutter brackets. 3 bays to right (1928): double door in architrave with cornice and plaque recording extension flanked by hexagonal windows. 1st floor windows, tabling and gutter brackets as left hand bays. Later 3-bay extension projecting on right not of special interest.