Grimsby College Of Art And Design

GRIMSBY

TA2709NE ELEANOR STREET 699-1/18/32 (North side) 15/08/95 Grimsby College of Art and Design

GV II

School, now College of Art and Design. 1894 by HC Scaping of Grimsby; Hewins and Goodhand, builders, for Great Grimsby School Board. Red brick in English bond and English garden wall bond, with sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Flemish style. Approximately rectangular on plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 7 bays to front, arranged 2:1:1:1:2, with a projecting 3-bay central section with a recessed centre bay flanked by wide gabled bays, and 2-bay side wings. Moulded brick plinth, flush ashlar bands and moulded ashlar string courses linking the window sills, keystones and transoms. Central section has 5 ground-floor cross-windows beneath rusticated arches with tall fluted keystones and raised apron panels below the sill string course. Below the central window is a marble foundation plaque for the First Higher Grade School, dated 29 October 1894. To the left is a finely-inscribed C20 slate plaque by Philip Pape of Barton on Humber, a former Art College teacher, recording burials of former school members. Above the window is an 1894 marble plaque in a carved ashlar surround naming the building as the Winterigham Higher Grade School, recording the School Board Members, architect and builders. First floor: pair of narrow windows to centre bay divided by a brick pilaster; tripartite windows to each side with central cross windows. The central pilaster carries a pulvinated dosseret and a shaped carved stone panel with the weathered remains of a roundel bearing the town seal, the panel forming an apron to a second-floor cross-window. Bays to each side have tripartite windows with similar cross-windows flanked by shorter narrower lights. Coped parapet to centre bay with a central brick pier carrying an ashlar cap with ball finial. Side bays have coped stepped gables with corner piers and ornate centrepieces with corbelled pilasters, moulded cornices and ashlar panels with medallions in carved surrounds; the piers and pilasters with ball finials. Wings have segmental-arched staircase windows with keystones and hoodmoulds. All windows have moulded wood reveals, ovolo mullions and transoms, glazing bars, and segmental brick arches with fluted ashlar keystones and hoodmoulds. Moulded ashlar eaves cornice. Prominent downpipes with shaped rainwater-heads. Hipped roof with finials. Central octagonal

cupola with tall onion dome and needle finial. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 50-51).

Listing NGR: TA2770609573