Sidmouth Street School West Block

SIDMOUTH STREET SCHOOL WEST BLOCK, SIDMOUTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219200
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1992
List Entry Name:
Sidmouth Street School West Block
Statutory Address:
SIDMOUTH STREET SCHOOL WEST BLOCK, SIDMOUTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219200
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1992
List Entry Name:
Sidmouth Street School West Block
Statutory Address 1:
SIDMOUTH STREET SCHOOL WEST BLOCK, SIDMOUTH 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
SIDMOUTH STREET SCHOOL WEST BLOCK, SIDMOUTH STREET

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 08029 31249

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017


TA 03 SE,
680-1/4/343

KINGSTON UPON HULL,
SIDMOUTH STREET (North side),
Sidmouth Street School, West Block

22/10/92

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II

Primary school. Built 1911-12 by Joseph H. Hirst, City Architect,
with late C20 alterations. Red brick
with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs topped
with an octagonal wooden bell turret with lead dome and
weather vane. two side wall stacks, one of them coped.
Two storeys; 6x9 windows. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes,
those to the first floor with moulded lintels and keystones.
East front, to playground, has polychrome quoins, moulded
first-floor sill band and dentillated eaves. Recessed centre
has four 28-pane sashes and below, a round-arched entrance
flanked by two windows, now mainly covered by a late C20
single-storey flat-roofed addition. End pavilions, 3 windows
deep, have large dentillated semicircular pediments containing
a round window with festoons. Each has a 20-pane sash and
below, an ashlar panel with a plain round window.
Left return, to south, has to right a projecting wing, three
storeys, with dentillated semicircular pediment. Two square
glazing-bar windows between floors, and above, two 28-pane
sashes. Below, four 20-pane sashes. To right, end pavilion
with three windows on each floor. To left, a slightly
projecting triple bay with two 12-pane windows to left, and to
right, a square extruded corner with a similar window. Above,
three 28-pane sashes. Below, a round window flanked by pairs
of recessed double doors. The left door lintel is inscribed
"Junior Girls".
To left, a slightly set back range with, to right, a 20-pane
sash with moulded lintel and keystone, and below, a 12-pane
window. Rear, to west, has a central recess with six 28-pane
sashes on each floor. Left wing has a 20-pane sash and below,
a 12-pane window.

INTERIOR has corridors lined with glazed tiles and a central
first floor hall with segmental vault.


Listing NGR: TA0802631255

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Legacy System number:
387781
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 158

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Sidmouth Street School West Block

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