The Old School

SUNK ISLAND SUNK ISLAND ROAD TA 21 NE (west side) 10/90 The Old School GV II

School. 1857 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners, with C20 additions and alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed to south side. Banded slate roof. T-shaped on plan: schoolroom with contemporary north central wing extended in C20, later extension to east, and original lean-to section adjoining schoolhouse (qv) to west; entrance facing yard to north. Single storey. South side: 6 windows, irregular fenestration. Chamfered plinth. External stack to left of centre with tumbled-in brick to offsets, segmental-pointed recessed panel with tablet bearing crown, royal cypher and date, tall chimney shaft with black brick cornice and square pot. To left: C20 tripartite window with glazing bars, small lancet to lean-to, ashlar string course. To right: similar tripartite window, three 15-pane windows. All windows with rounded-chamfered sills and brick arches. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends. Roof hipped to right. Diagonally-set square bell turret corbelled-out to left gable, with splayed base, buttresses flanking segmental-arched openings to each side, ashlar string course and polygonal brick spire with weather-vane. North side: main range with 4 lancets to right; central wing with triple lancets to each side, inserted door to north-west angle, inserted garage door to north end, hipped roof. One of a series of C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon. Included for group value. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, East Riding, 1972, p 352; Victoria County History: York, East Riding, vol 5, 1984, p 139.

Listing NGR: TA2669918980