St John The Baptist Church Of England Primary School

POLLINGTON BALNE MOOR ROAD HUMBERSIDE BOOTHFERRY 5262 SE 61 NW (south side) 8/18 St John The Baptist Church of England Primary School GV II School and schoolhouse, now school. 1854-5 by William Butterfield for William Henry Dawnay, seventh Viscount Downe; built by Charles Ward of Lincoln. Alterations and additions of 1902 and 1962. Red brick in English bond with plain tile and Welsh slate roof; later C19 additions in watching style and materials; 1962 addition of timber. Original section rectangular on plan: entrance hall with schoolroom to right and schoolhouse to left, with later classroom wing to rear and additions to each end; C20 addition to front and large classroom extension to rear right. North front: single- storey, 3-window schoolroom range; single-storey with attic, 3-window schoolhouse. Segmental-pointed entrance to centre with 2-fold 6-panelled door (top panels glazed). To right, original schoolroom section has projecting lateral stack flanked by single casement and C20 addition to left, original 3-light sash with glazing bars to right, and 3-light window to right extension. Schoolhouse section to left has original cross-mullion window with chamfered mullions beneath soldier and pointed relieving arches, 2-light sash with glazing bars, buttress with tumbled-in brick to offset, C20 half-glazed door and single-light casement to outshut at left end. Steeply-pitched roofs with various pitches, half-hipped to left. Plain tiles to schoolroom range, slates to schoolhouse. Lateral stack to schoolroom, pair of axial stacks to schoolhouse, with tumbled-in brick to offsets. Right gable end has pointed 4-light window with chamfered mullions and glazing bars. Left gable end, flanked by outshuts, has 3-light ground- floor sash and 2-light attic sash with glazing bars and segmental arches. Rear has irregular fenestration and roof-pitches, original sashes (one with glazing bars beneath pointed relieving arch), and pointed 3-light mullioned window to C19 rear wing. Unsympathetic C20 addition to left, of no special interest. Contemporary with neighbouring church and vicarage (qv), and with similar groups at nearby Hensall (North Yorkshire) and Cowick (qv). Also known as Pollington-cum-Balne School. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971. J Killeen, A Short History of Cowick Hall, 1967, pp 27-29. R Dixon and S Muthesius, Victorian Architecture, 1978, p 49 and p 208. Photographs in NMR.

Listing NGR: SE6113819240