Village school and schoolmaster's house is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. School and house. 1 related planning application.
Village school and schoolmaster's house
- WRENN ID
- bitter-rotunda-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- School and house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a village school and schoolmaster’s house, dating to 1875, with later 20th-century additions and alterations of limited significance. It was designed by G.E Street for Sir Tatton Sykes, fifth Baronet. Constructed primarily of reddish-orange brick in an English garden wall bond, with ashlar dressings and some timber framing, it has a plain tile roof.
Originally T-shaped, the building has had ranges added to the rear in the 20th century. The schoolroom is a single-storey, three-bay structure, adjoined to the right by a single bay with an attic, and further extended to the right with a taller schoolmaster's wing that projects slightly; the wing is single-storey with an attic to the gable. A buttress with offsets is present on the left side, rising to the level of the sill band, with quoins above. The plinth features ashlar copings. The main entrance, situated between the third and fourth bays, is a pointed ashlar arch with a cavetto moulding under a hoodmould, which extends across the facade as the sill band. A projecting stack interrupts the sill band between the second and third bays, tapering to an octagonal chimney with a star-shaped ashlar cowl. Bays one, two, and three have two-light windows with ogeed trefoil lights and chamfered mullions within quoined surrounds, fitted with mainly diamond-paned casements. The fourth bay features a similar three-light window, but with blocked foils. An ashlar eaves band is present, along with overhanging eaves. A skylight is located behind the chimney. A dormer window to the attic in the fourth bay has a diamond-paned, three-light casement. Ornamental ridge tiles and two fleches are also visible. The left gable end features a four-light window with cusped lights in a double-chamfered surround, and a single light at the apex.
The schoolmaster's wing has a chamfered ashlar plinth and a sill band. A two-light mullion window with a chamfered mullion and quoined architrave is present. Above this is a band of timber framing, interrupted by a central three-light casement window. The gable is decorated with fish-scale tiles. Groups of two and four star-shaped stacks rise from the ridge and rear. The entrance to the schoolmaster’s house on the right return includes a plank door within a projecting porch with timber framing to the gable.
Internally, the schoolroom contains a stone fireplace with an ogeed arch and sill band. Within the schoolmaster’s house is a pine dogleg staircase with open fretwork balustrade and newel posts. The property features mainly four-panel doors throughout, and shutters to some windows.
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