Former Blundell Street School
FORMER BLUNDELL STREET SCHOOL, BRUNSWICK AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197628
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Blundell Street School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BLUNDELL STREET SCHOOL, BRUNSWICK AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197628
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Nov-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Former Blundell Street School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BLUNDELL STREET SCHOOL, BRUNSWICK AVENUE
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:
- FORMER BLUNDELL STREET SCHOOL, BRUNSWICK AVENUE
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 09217 29524
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
680-1/16/77 BRUNSWICK AVENUE 14-OCT-93 (South,off) FORMER BLUNDELL STREET SCHOOL (Formerly listed as: BRUNSWICK AVENUE HUMBERSIDE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHIT ECTURE)
II Former board school, now school of architecture. Dated 1878, with late C20 alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with a central traceried square bell turret with pyramidal roof. single side and rear wall stacks. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, sill bands, dentillated eaves, coped gables with kneelers. Single and 2 storeys; 2 blocks each of 3 bays, plus corner tower. Lancet windows have transoms and hoodmoulds. 2-storey block, to left, has a projecting gabled centre with a 4-light lancet with plate tracery and beyond, to left, single and double plain sashes. To right, a through-eaves gabled dormer with a 3-light cross-mullioned window. Below, a triple lancet flanked by single lancets and beyond, to left, 2 flat-headed cross casements. Beyond, to right, former girls' entrance covered by a late C20 gabled porch. To its right, a 3-light cross mullioned window. Corner tower, to left, 3 stages, has angle buttresses, panelled frieze, dentillated eaves and pyramidal roof topped with a cross finial. 2 single lancets with linked hoodmould and above, a through-eaves dormer on corbels, with a moulded coped gable and a single lancet. Below, a segment-headed recess between the buttresses, with a relief panel with coat of arms and motto, and below it, 3 narrow windows. left return has 2 lancets on the first stage and below, between floors, a single lancet. To its left, a door with pointed overlight. Single storey block, to right, has a projecting central gable with angle buttresses and 2 triple lancets with plate tracery. Above them, a traceried round window and above again, 3 slit ventilators. To left, a door with round overlight and hoodmould, flanked to left by a 2-light cross casement. Beyond, to right, a similar window. INTERIOR has arch-braced open roofs to the main first floor rooms. REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The former Blundell Street School, built as a board school in 1878, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural Interest: built in Gothic Revival style, it has good architectural features such as mullioned and lancet windows, dentillated eaves, coped gables with kneelers, a corner tower with angled buttresses and a pyramidal roof topped with a cross finial, and a square bell turret with pyramidal roof. * Interior: retains arch-braced open roofs to the main first floor rooms. * Historical Interest: as a remaining example of a board school built by the Hull School Board during the late C19.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387480
- 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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