Captain Cook School And School House

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