Old School House

SUNK ISLAND SUNK ISLAND TA 21 NE (west side) 10/89 Old School House GV II

Schoolhouse, now house. 1857 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners, with later C19 bay window and minor C20 alterations and colour-wash. Red brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed. Banded slate roof. Approximately square, 3-room plan, with later kitchen outshut to north; adjoins former school (qv) to east. Single storey with attic. East front: 2 bays, irregular fenestration. Chamfered plinth. Flush buttress to left with tumbled-in brick to offset. Chamfered rounded-trefoil entrance with board door bearing ornate strap hinges. 2 ground-floor lancets to right with glazing bars, chamfered jambs and brick arches. Gabled half-dormer above entrance with a brick oriel carried on corbelled brackets, containing a small segmental-headed plate-glass sash beneath a hipped roof. To right, a 4-pane segmental-headed attic sash with single lancet to left, beneath a half-hipped gable. Gables have tumbled-in brick and stepped eaves. Banded and corniced end stack corbelled-out from right gable. Left return: narrow 8-pane segmental-headed sash to right, gabled section with ground-floor canted bay window containing plate-glass sashes in chamfered reveals with ashlar lintels and sills, 4-pane segmental-headed attic sash. Similar gable details to front. Rear has inserted C20 ground-floor window, segmental-headed 3-light window to left outshut, 4-pane attic sash beneath segmental arch and gable, large projecting stack to right with tumbled-in brick to offsets, corniced shaft. Interior contains closed-string staircase with moulded handrail, chamfered newels and Gothic-style splat balusters with pierced trefoils; arched recesses to ground floor. One of a series of C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon. 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: TA2668718975