Social Services Adult Education Centre And Attached Railings

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE SOMERSET STREET 680-1/8/351 (North East side) Social Services Adult Education Centre and attached railings

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Former board school, now social services and adult education centre, and attached railings. 1881. By W Freeman, with late C20 alterations. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs with coped gables, gabled ventilators, and 3 square louvred bell turrets with pyramidal roofs. Gothic Revival style. Single storey; 19-window range. Windows have stone mullions and transoms. Near symmetrical front has a central gable with a graduated window with central triple lancet flanked by single lancets, with blank heads and hoodmoulds. To right, 2 flat-headed cross casements, then a projecting porch topped with a shouldered gabled single bell turret. Pointed arched doorway with inscribed tympnum and hoodmould, with a pair of doors. To right again, a gabled through-eaves dormer with a traceried triple lancet and hoodmould, flanked by single buttresses and beyond, single cross casements. Above, two 2-light box dormers with glazed roofs. To right again, a projecting gable with a graduated triple window. To left, a gabled through eaves dormer with plate traceried triple lancet, flanked by single buttresss and beyond, single cross casements. To left again, a gabled porch with pointed-arched door and traceried and inscribed tympanum, flanked by 2 cross casements. Left gable has 2 double lancets and a round window above them, under a common hoodmould. Above, 4 gablet ventilators. Left return has to left a projecting gable with 2 lancets, and to right a buttressed range with 2 through-eaves dormers with 3-light cross casements, flanked by single cross casements. Outside, railings with fleur-de-lys heads, chamfered brick plinth and brick piers with pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: TA0737327917