OLD SCHOOL HOUSE

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:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SUNK ISLAND

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.