Hurworth House Boys' Preparatory School

HURWORTH THE GREEN NZ 3010 (North side)

17/84 No. 38 (Hurworth House Boys' 20.3.67 Preparatory School)

GV II

House, now boys' preparatory school, c.1730. Brick with stone dressings: header-bond front, Flemish-bond rear. Graduated green slate roof with brick chimney stacks. 3-storey, 3-bay entrance front has plinth, raised-and- chamfered quoins, sill bands and eaves cornice. Central 6-panel door and radial fanlight in open-pedimented stone doorcase with engaged columns with fluted capitals and dosserets. 3-storey canted brick bays flanking centre bay. Windows in flat-faced surrounds: 12-pane sashes on ground and first floors, square 6-pane sashes on top floor. Low-pitched roof with stone-coped gables and end stacks. 3-storey, 3-bay rear has plinth, sill bands and eaves cornice. Central partly-glazed 4-panel door and overlight with patterned glazing in rusticated stone doorcase with engaged fluted columns. Elongated sash above door; round-arched sash window on top floor. 3-storey canted brick bays, flanking centre bay, with sashes in flat-faced surrounds.

Interior: dogleg staircase, of 4 flights plus landing rail, with moulded closed string, square newels, ramped square-sectioned handrail on thin turned balusters and ramped dado rail.

Late C19 and early C20 additions on both returns are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3066010198