St Helen'S Auckland Junior School And Attached Walls And Railings

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ1826 MANOR ROAD, St Helen Auckland 634-1/10/155 (North side) St Helen's Auckland Junior School and attached walls and railings

GV II

County junior school with walls and railings attached. c1900. MATERIALS: bright red brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles and ashlar copings. Brick and ashlar walls and arches, wrought-iron gates and railings. PLAN: double range with central rear wing. EXTERIOR: Free Baroque style. One storey, 6:9:6 windows in groups of 3. Right end door, now blocked and window inserted, has ashlar surround with well-cut letters COOKERY below segmental arch with ramped parapet. Ashlar sill band. All windows 2-pane lower lights, glazing bars to upper lights, with bottom-hinged opening transom light. Side windows of each group have shallow segmental heads, central windows taller. Central 3 groups have front gables, with pilasters flanking central window and rising to ashlar gable peak. All central windows in stone architraves with long voussoirs rising to semicircular heads, forming segmental pediments breaking forward from roof in outer groups where central windows break eaves, and in central gabled groups flanked by pilasters. Roof has ashlar gable coping on raised kneelers, front gables also have ball finials on high plinth. Truncated ridge ventilators. Small right end brick chimney with ashlar cornice. Brick front walls with ashlar coping are ramped up to end arched entrances with ashlar bands on piers, and ashlar lintel with low segmental head: at left, inscribed BOYS, and at right, GIRLS, in low relief capitals. Short stretches of wall break forward from ends of school and link to front wall. Wrought-iron gates in each archway have tendril terminals to principals, and scrolled patterns.

Listing NGR: NZ1874426780