Grimsby College Of Art And Design

Grimsby College of Art and Design is a school building, constructed in 1894 by HC Scaping of Grimsby, with Hewins and Goodhand serving as builders for the Great Grimsby School Board. The building is built of red brick in English bond and English garden wall bond, featuring sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is designed in a Flemish style and has an approximately rectangular plan.

The exterior presents three storeys and is arranged with seven bays, organized 2:1:1:1:2, with a projecting three-bay central section and two-bay side wings. A moulded brick plinth, flush ashlar bands, and moulded ashlar string courses punctuate the facade. The central section's ground floor features five cross-windows beneath rusticated arches with tall fluted keystones and raised apron panels. A marble foundation plaque, dated October 29, 1894, is positioned below the central window. A slate plaque by Philip Pape commemorates burials of former school members. An 1894 marble plaque within a carved ashlar surround identifies the building as Winterigham Higher Grade School, listing School Board members, the architect, and builders. The first floor has paired narrow windows in the centre bay, flanked by tripartite windows with central cross windows, and a shaped carved stone panel with remnants of the town seal below a second-floor window. Coped parapets adorn the centre bay, topped with a brick pier and ashlar cap with a ball finial. The side bays have coped, stepped gables with corner piers and ornate centrepieces featuring corbelled pilasters, moulded cornices, and ashlar panels with medallions in carved surrounds, all topped with ball finials. Wings have segmental-arched staircase windows with keystones and hoodmoulds. All windows feature moulded wood reveals, ovolo mullions and transoms, glazing bars, segmental brick arches with fluted ashlar keystones, and hoodmoulds. A moulded ashlar eaves cornice runs along the top, and prominent downpipes with shaped rainwater-heads are present. A hipped roof is finished with finials, and a central octagonal cupola rises, topped with a tall onion dome and needle finial.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.