Village school and schoolmaster's house
Village school and schoolmaster's house, Main Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083770
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Village school and schoolmaster's house
- Statutory Address:
- Village school and schoolmaster's house, Main Street
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083770
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Village school and schoolmaster's house
- Statutory Address 1:
- Village school and schoolmaster's house, Main Street
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:
- Village school and schoolmaster's house, Main Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sledmere
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 93626 64754
Details
SE 9264-9364
17/64
SLEDMERE
MAIN STREET (north side)
Village school and schoolmaster's house
GV
II
Village school and schoolmaster's house. 1875 with later additions and alterations including those of mid-late C20 of no special interest. By G.E Street for Sir Tatton Sykes, fifth Baronet. Reddish-orange brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings and some timber framing, with plain tile roof.
Originally T-shaped on plan, with C20 ranges to rear. Single-storey, three bay schoolroom, single bay with attic adjoining to right and taller schoolmaster's wing beyond to right which projects slightly, single storey with attic to gable. Angle buttress with offsets to left, to height of sill band and with quoins above. Plinth with ashlar copings. Entrance between third and fourth bays a pointed ashlar arch with cavetto moulding under hoodmould which continues across facade as sill band, within a pointed-arched plank door. Projecting stack interrupts sill band between second and third bays, tapering to octagonal chimney with star-shaped ashlar cowl. Bays one, two and three have two ogeed trefoil-light windows with chamfered mullions and quoined surrounds, with mainly diamond-paned casements. To fourth bay a similar three-light window but with blocked foils. Ashlar eaves band. Overhanging eaves. Skylight behind chimney. Roof dormer to attic in fourth bay has diamond-paned, three-light casement window. Ornamental ridge tiles and two fleches. To left gable end a four-light window with cusped lights in double-chamfered surround and with single light at apex.
Wing: chamfered ashlar plinth. Sill band. Two-light mullion window with chamfered mullion and quoined architrave. Above a band of timber framing interrupted by central three-light casement window. Gable has fish-scale tiles. Groups of two and four star-shaped stacks to ridge and rear. Entrance to schoolmaster's house to right return a plank door within projecting porch with timber framing to gable.
Interiors: Schoolroom has stone fireplace with ogeed arch and sill band. Schoolmaster's house: pine dogleg staircase with open fretwork balustrade and newel posts. Mainly four-panel doors throughout. Shutters to some windows.
Listing NGR: SE9362664754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 346
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 22 Humberside,
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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