FORMER HOLME HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED MASTERS HOUSE

FORMER HOLME HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED MASTERS HOUSE, HENEAGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379852
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOLME HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED MASTERS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FORMER HOLME HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED MASTERS HOUSE, HENEAGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379852
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOLME HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED MASTERS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER HOLME HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED MASTERS HOUSE, HENEAGE ROAD

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

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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:: FORMER HOLME HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED MASTERS HOUSE, HENEAGE ROAD

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District:: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 27801 09679

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2709NE HENEAGE ROAD 699-1/18/40 (West side) 31/10/74 Former Holme Hill School and attached Master's House (Formerly Listed as: HENEAGE ROAD (West side) Holme Hill School)

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School and attached schoolmaster's house, now Education and Child Guidance Centre. 1876-8 by Charles Bell of London, architect, and JM Thompson of Louth, builder, for the Great Grimsby School Board. C20 alterations and repairs. Red brick in English bond with yellow brick and limestone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style. School approximately rectangular on plan. EXTERIOR: single storey with 3-storey clock tower over main entrance. Single-bay projecting wings linked by 3-bay and 4-bay sections, in the sequence 1:3:1:4:1(tower):3:1. Stepped plinth; quoins to angles and openings. Angle buttresses to central tower, pair of buttresses flanking the central 2 bays of the 4-bay section. 3-stage tower has stone steps to entrance with pointed moulded ashlar arch with flush impost band and outer brick arch. Inner door beneath pointed brick arch of 3 stepped orders. Stone plaque over entrance dated 1877 has central roundel bearing relief carving of the town seal with figures of Grim and Havelock the Dane, above which is a stone band, with a recessed panel bearing the inscription "GREAT GRIMSBY PUBLIC ELEMENTARY BOARD SCHOOL". Second stage has a pair of lancet windows with a flush ashlar band at springer level. Panel between second and third stages with flush ashlar bands enclosing 6 courses of cogged brick, above which is a pointed moulded arch with a recessed ashlar panel containing a circular clockface above a frieze of 4 roundels; moulded arch with carved string course at impost level. Above is an ornate parapet with miniature machicolations and pierced roundels, small elaborate angle turrets with conical caps and finials. Pyramidal roof with bellcote capped by spirelet with lucarnes and weather-vane. Side ranges have 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with flush sill bands. Range to left has entrance with panelled door beneath pointed trefoiled arch with hoodmould. Gabled sections have 3-light mullioned and transomed windows beneath pointed arches with plain yellow brick panels; flush ashlar

bands. Gabled bay to far right has foundation stone recording date 18 May 1878 and names of architect and builder. Right return, facing Wellington Street, has gabled bay breaking forward to the far right and 3 windows to the left, with similar details to main front. Adjoining 2-storey former schoolmaster's house, fronting Wellington Street, now incorporated in Education Centre. Similar style and materials to main school range. Approximately L-shaped on plan, with gabled wing to front and wing to rear right, with lower range containing entrance set back in angle. 2 storeys; irregular front with 2 first-floor windows. Chamfered ashlar plinth, quoins, flush ashlar sill and impost bands, first-floor string course and 1/1 plate-glass sashes to front. Projecting gabled section has ground-floor canted brick and ashlar bay window beneath hipped roof, twin ashlar lancet windows to first floor with hoodmoulds beneath herringbone brick panel and pointed brick relieving arch. Section set back to right has open porch with dwarf coped walls and a pair of cast-iron piers carrying a lean-to roof over a segmental-arched door; first-floor ashlar lancet window beneath brick arch. Right return has single staircase window to left between flush ashlar bands and beneath segmental brick relieving arch; projecting wing to right has ground-floor 2/2 sash beneath segmental brick relieving arch, first-floor 2/2 sash beneath lintel and half-hipped roof; pitched roofs to remainder. INTERIORS: not inspected. The first major school built in Grimsby following the 1870 Education Act. Charles Bell won the nationwide competition for its design. Forms part of a notable group of Victorian and Edwardian educational and religious buildings built on land provided by the Heneage Estate (see under Sir Moses Montefiore Synagogue for details). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339-340; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 48; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.102).

Listing NGR: TA2780109679

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 339-340

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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.