Captain Cook School and School House
CAPTAIN COOK SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, THE GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329508
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Captain Cook School and School House
- Statutory Address:
- CAPTAIN COOK SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, THE GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329508
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Captain Cook School and School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAPTAIN COOK SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, THE GROVE
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:
- CAPTAIN COOK SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, THE GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 51585 15830
Details
MIDDLESBROUGH THE GROVE NZ 51 NW (5115) (north side), Marton. 4/37 Captain Cook School and School House. - II. Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Marton Lane. Parochial School and school house, 1849/50 by R.C. Carpenter (London). Infants' room and rear porch, 1884. Used as private house and nursery school since 1961. Dressed sandstone, with chamfered plinth; and brick north gable of infants' room. Welsh slate roofs. Tudor Gothic style. 2-storey school house and one-storey porch and school. 3 asymmetrical bays. Lower central gabled porch links house and school. Boarded double doors in moulded Tudor-arched surround, with enriched spandrels and hoodmould, under projecting niche with enriched corbel and hood with spirelet. Left school house has canted bay window with chamfered-mullioned cusped-headed lights, iron casements and leaded glazing. Similar single light on ground floor right. Shallow parapet with chamfered and roll-moulded copings. Corniced, projecting offset stack at left end. Hipped roof. Right gable-fronted school has 4-centred-headed window with rectilinear tracery under hoodmould. Finial missing. Right return, fronting The Grove, has 3 square-headed windows with similar tracery between offset buttresses. Truncated wood bellcote with louvres at west end of ridge. Zinc ridge-vent with conical roof, at east end. Rear of school shows similar 4-centred-headed window, gabled infant room and lean-to porch in angle between school and main porch. INTERIOR z school roof has arch-braced collar-beam trusses and through-purlins. Inscribed slate tablet, dated 1812, in memory of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., on north wall of school (originally in Church of St. Cuthbert). Inscribed marble tablet in infant room records its building in 1884. HISTORY : built of stone from Marton Lodge, built 1790, destroyed by fire c.1832.
Listing NGR: NZ5158515830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59732
- 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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