St Nicholas School
ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL, COTTINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197606
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas School
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL, COTTINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197606
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL, COTTINGHAM 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:
- ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL, COTTINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 08289 31661
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017
TA 03 SE,
680-1/4/106
KINGSTON UPON HULL,
COTTINGHAM ROAD (North side),
St Nicholas School
GV
II
School. Formerly part of the Newland Homes of the Sailors'
Families' Society. Designed by W. H. Bingley of Hull. c1897, with late C20 alterations and additions. Yellow brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and
hipped slate roofs, the main roof topped with a square clock
tower with pyramidal roof and finial. Two side wall stacks.
Renaissance Revival style. Plinth, string courses, coped
gables. Two storeys; 3-window range. Cross plan with hipped
cross wings. Main south gable has two canted buttresses rising
above the gable and topped with pinnacles. In the centre, a
flat-headed 4-light lancet with panel tracery and double
transoms. Above, a square panel with the name of the school
and above again, a triple breather. On either side, a
transomed plain sash with label mould. Below, a projecting
single-storey range linking the canted projecting bays of the
side wings, with two buttresses and coped parapet. 4 small
windows flanked by single doors, that to the left larger. The
canted projections have each three single lancets with cusped
heads. At the rear, late C20 additions in a similar style,
with canted hipped projection to east. This complex of orphan
homes and ancillary buildings was built c1897 by the Port of
Hull Society's Sailors' Orphan Homes and endowed by various
benefactors whose names are attached to the buildings. See other entries for former Newland Homes.
Listing NGR: TA0828931661
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387537
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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