Sidmouth Street School East Block

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TA 03 SE, 680-1/4/340

KINGSTON UPON HULL, SIDMOUTH STREET (North side), Sidmouth Street School, East Block

22/10/92

GV

II

Primary school. Built 1911-12 by Joseph H. Hirst, City Architect, with mid and late C20 alterations. Red brick with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs. Early C18 style. Two and three storeys; 10x10 windows. Square plan with central reces to north and south sides. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes, those to the first floor with moulded lintels and keystones. West front, to playground, has polychrome quoins, moulded first-floor sill band, and dentillated cornice. Two storeys; 10-window range. In the centre, six 28-pane sashes and below, six similar windows with plain lintels. Slightly projecting end pavilions have large dentillated semicircular pediments containing a round window and festoons. Left pavilion has a 28-pane sash above and a 16-pane fixed light below. Right pavilion has three 28-pane sashes on each floor. Left return, to north, has a central recess with a segment-headed tripartite glazing bar sash with hoodmould and keystone, flanked by single 18-pane sashes. Above again, a gable with a round louvred opening with festoons. Below, a tripartite sash flanked by 18-pane sashes, and a full-width flat-roofed projection with three segment-headed barred windows. To right, end pavilion with three 28-pane sashes on each floor. To left, hipped range with side wall stack and without quoins. Four 28-pane sashes and below, to right, a moulded round-arched entrance with keystone. Over the entrance, between floors, three round windows. Similar right return, to south, has a late C20 single-storey flat-roofed addition fronting the centre and the left pavilion. Left pavilion has, to right, a 24-pane sash on each floor. Right wing has three 28-pane sashes on each floor.

Listing NGR: TA0802631255