Saltburn Primary School (Marske Mill Base)

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6521SE WINDSOR ROAD, Saltburn 802-1/9/64 (South side) Saltburn Primary School (Marske Mill base)

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Includes: Saltburn Primary School (Marske Mill Base) MARSKE MILL LANE Saltburn. Shown on O.S. as Saltburn County Junior School. Originally Girls' High School, now primary school. 1903, altered late C20, by Russell & Cooper, contract architect Edwin Cooper, for West Richmondshire Council. MATERIALS: red stretcher bond brick with tooled ashlar dressings; graduated light grey slate roofs. STYLE: Neo-Georgian. PLAN: U-plan. EXTERIOR: single storey. North elevation 21 bays arranged 4:3:7:3:4; has low central projection with double 6-panel door, in stone surround of architrave with broken pediment on scroll brackets with stone panel to eaves, flanked by 9-pane windows in architraves; long intermittent stone quoins; roundels in returns. Hall rises behind with 5 lunettes with radiating glazing bars. Set back from entrance block are classroom bays with 3 tall windows, lower sashes and top hinged transom lights, with glazing bars; returns have tripartite window in similar style. Set further back, classroom wings have 4 tall windows to north. Side returns, 9 bays, 8 sashes and one roundel. All roundels have stone keys with bright red brick surrounds. Roof hipped at varied levels, the hall roof rising to a tall domed cupola on columns and square plinth; dolphin wind vane. Wide dormers with glazing bars and flat heads are on front and returns of bays flanking centre. All eaves overhang; brick chimney stacks rise from eaves at front and at inner eaves. Small louvred ventilators in roofs of wings. South elevations of wings have large lunettes with glazing bars and keyed brick arches. Playground elevations flanked by wings show small original projections. INTERIOR: most original detail intact, including doors and windows throughout. Hall has square piers on north; both sides have clerestory lunettes on deep entablature. Some original cloakroom fittings - shoe boxes and shelves. HISTORY: Edwin Cooper, 1873-1942, knighted in 1923, was one of

the leading architects of his generation. Born in Scarborough, he designed various local educational buildings including, Scarborough Technical Schools, 1898-1901. He went on to build such nationally important buildings as Marylebone Town Hall, 1911-1918, The Port of London Authority Building, 1912-22, and The Star and Garter Home, 1921-24. An important early example of a Neo-Georgian style school.

Listing NGR: NZ6596121097