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FORMER JUNIOR SCHOOL BUILDING AT ACOMB COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILING

FORMER JUNIOR SCHOOL BUILDING AT ACOMB COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILING, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257801
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1992
List Entry Name:: FORMER JUNIOR SCHOOL BUILDING AT ACOMB COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILING
Statutory Address:: FORMER JUNIOR SCHOOL BUILDING AT ACOMB COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILING, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257801
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1992
List Entry Name:: FORMER JUNIOR SCHOOL BUILDING AT ACOMB COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILING
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER JUNIOR SCHOOL BUILDING AT ACOMB COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILING, FRONT STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Statutory Address:: FORMER JUNIOR SCHOOL BUILDING AT ACOMB COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILING, FRONT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 57528 51359

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YORK

SE55SE FRONT STREET, Acomb 1112-1/1/1198 (South side) 30/09/92 Former Junior School Building at Acomb County Primary School & attached railing

GV II

Former Junior School, now part of Primary School. 1894, and C20 additions. Designed by Walter Brierley of Demaine and Brierley of York. Red brick with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs with raised ashlar coped gables. 2 ridge, 2 rear wall and 2 corner stacks. PLAN: U-plan. EXTERIOR: single storey. Moulded brick eaves cornice. North, Front Street, elevation has projecting central block topped by a square leaded tower with a clock to each face and an octagonal domed cupola supported on 8 wooden columns with weathervane finial. Two pairs of tall, 32 pane, glazing bar casements with flat brick heads and keystones rise through the eaves into 2 tall gables. Left and right returns each have a single tall, 48 pane, glazing bar casement with similar heads. Side wings, set back at either side, each have crow-stepped gables to both north and south. Each front has 3 graduated windows, the central taller ones 24 pane glazing bar casements with keyed segmental arch heads, the flanking windows 12 pane glazing bar casements with flat heads. The outer front of both wings to east and west each has a central pair of tall, 32 pane glazing bar casements with flat brick heads, each window rising through the eaves into paired curved gables. Rear, playground elevation, has a recessed centre with a 1-storey lean to extension. Above, between the pair of rear wall stacks, an 8-light continuous dormer window. Central late C20 projecting flat roof addition: in the corners single projecting porches with segment-headed doorways. INTERIOR: original glazed dividing screens between the classrooms, original doors, and cupboards plus 2 original tiled fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, attached low brick wall with chamfered ashlar coping with tall railings and gates along Front Street.

Listing NGR: SE5752851359

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Legacy System number:: 463434
Legacy System:: LBS

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