The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, SUNK ISLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161220
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SUNK ISLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161220
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SUNK ISLAND ROAD
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SUNK ISLAND ROAD
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:
- TA2669918980
Details
SUNK ISLAND SUNK ISLAND ROAD
TA 21 NE
(west side)
10/90 The Old School
GV II
School. 1857 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners, with C20 additions
and alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed to south side.
Banded slate roof. T-shaped on plan: schoolroom with contemporary north
central wing extended in C20, later extension to east, and original lean-to
section adjoining schoolhouse (qv) to west; entrance facing yard to north.
Single storey. South side: 6 windows, irregular fenestration. Chamfered
plinth. External stack to left of centre with tumbled-in brick to offsets,
segmental-pointed recessed panel with tablet bearing crown, royal cypher and
date, tall chimney shaft with black brick cornice and square pot. To left:
C20 tripartite window with glazing bars, small lancet to lean-to, ashlar
string course. To right: similar tripartite window, three 15-pane windows.
All windows with rounded-chamfered sills and brick arches. Overhanging
eaves with exposed rafter ends. Roof hipped to right. Diagonally-set
square bell turret corbelled-out to left gable, with splayed base,
buttresses flanking segmental-arched openings to each side, ashlar string
course and polygonal brick spire with weather-vane. North side: main range
with 4 lancets to right; central wing with triple lancets to each side,
inserted door to north-west angle, inserted garage door to north end, hipped
roof. One of a series of C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon. Included
for group value. 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: TA2669918980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166632
- 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), 352
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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