Former Blundell Street School

The former Blundell Street School, now a school of architecture, was built in 1878 and has undergone alterations in the late 20th century. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring gabled and hipped slate roofs and a central, traceried square bell turret with a pyramidal roof, as well as single side and rear wall stacks. The building is in the Gothic Revival style and includes a plinth, sill bands, dentillated eaves, and coped gables with kneelers.

The main building comprises two blocks, each of three bays, and a corner tower. The left-hand block has a projecting gabled centre with a four-light lancet window featuring plate tracery. To the left is a single sash window and a double sash window. A through-eaves gabled dormer features a three-light cross-mullioned window. Below, a triple lancet is flanked by single lancets, with two flat-headed cross casements to the right. A late 20th-century gabled porch covers the former girls' entrance, which is situated to the right of the triple lancet. The corner tower, to the left, is of three stages, with angle buttresses, a panelled frieze, dentillated eaves, and a pyramidal roof topped with a cross finial. It has a through-eaves dormer on corbels, a moulded coped gable, and a single lancet window. A segment-headed recess between the buttresses displays a relief panel with a coat of arms and motto, flanked by three narrow windows below. A left return has two lancet windows on the first stage and a single lancet between the floors. A door with a pointed overlight is located to its left. A single-storey block to the right includes a projecting central gable with angle buttresses and two triple lancets with plate tracery. Above these, a traceried round window and three slit ventilators are present. A door with a round overlight and hoodmould is flanked by a two-light cross casement to the left and a similar window to the right.

The interior retains arch-braced open roofs in the main first-floor rooms.

The building is designated at Grade II for its architectural interest, featuring good Gothic Revival details such as mullioned and lancet windows, dentillated eaves, coped gables, a corner tower with buttresses and a pyramidal roof, and a square bell turret. It also retains original roof features and has historical significance as a remaining example of a board school constructed by the Hull School Board in the late 19th century.