Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SUNK ISLAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083469
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SUNK ISLAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083469
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SUNK ISLAND
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SUNK ISLAND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sunk Island
- National Grid Reference:
- TA2668718975
Details
SUNK ISLAND SUNK ISLAND
TA 21 NE
(west side)
10/89 Old School House
GV II
Schoolhouse, now house. 1857 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners,
with later C19 bay window and minor C20 alterations and colour-wash. Red
brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed. Banded slate roof. Approximately
square, 3-room plan, with later kitchen outshut to north; adjoins former
school (qv) to east. Single storey with attic. East front: 2 bays,
irregular fenestration. Chamfered plinth. Flush buttress to left with
tumbled-in brick to offset. Chamfered rounded-trefoil entrance with board
door bearing ornate strap hinges. 2 ground-floor lancets to right with
glazing bars, chamfered jambs and brick arches. Gabled half-dormer above
entrance with a brick oriel carried on corbelled brackets, containing a
small segmental-headed plate-glass sash beneath a hipped roof. To right, a
4-pane segmental-headed attic sash with single lancet to left, beneath a
half-hipped gable. Gables have tumbled-in brick and stepped eaves. Banded
and corniced end stack corbelled-out from right gable. Left return: narrow
8-pane segmental-headed sash to right, gabled section with ground-floor
canted bay window containing plate-glass sashes in chamfered reveals with
ashlar lintels and sills, 4-pane segmental-headed attic sash. Similar
gable details to front. Rear has inserted C20 ground-floor window,
segmental-headed 3-light window to left outshut, 4-pane attic sash beneath
segmental arch and gable, large projecting stack to right with tumbled-in
brick to offsets, corniced shaft. Interior contains closed-string staircase
with moulded handrail, chamfered newels and Gothic-style splat balusters
with pierced trefoils; arched recesses to ground floor. One of a series of
C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England:
Yorkshire, East Riding, 1972, p 352; Victoria County History: York, East
Riding, vol 5, 1984, p 139.
Listing NGR: TA2668718975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Allison, K J, The Victoria History of the County of York: East Riding, (1984), 139
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 351-2
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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