Education Department Offices

GRIMSBY

TA2709NE ELEANOR STREET 699-1/18/31 (North side) Education Department Offices

GV II

Education offices. 1900-1 for Great Grimsby School Board by HC Scaping of Grimsby; Hewins and Goodhand, builders. Red brick in English bond with limestone ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Edwardian Classical style. Rectangular on plan: 2-room front with entrance staircase hall to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays. Moulded ashlar plinth, swept up to form aprons beneath windows. Flush ashlar bands to first floor. Entrance to left has Ionic doorcase with marble columns, entablature with pulvinated frieze and modillioned segmental pediment; recessed 2-fold panelled door and overlight in segmental-arched doorway with rusticated blockwork surround with keyed architrave. Segmental-headed 6/6 sashes to right in similar keyed rusticated surrounds with corniced sills. Apron beneath central window has marble foundation stone dated 29 November 1900 and recording architect, builder etc. First floor: symmetrical arrangement with a central segmental-bowed ashlar oriel and 4 sashes linked by sill string course and 3 flush ashlar bands. Oriel carried on carved brackets, with a moulded apron bearing a relief carving of the town's seal (showing Grim and Havloc the Dane), and a 6/6 sash beneath a 3-pane segmental overlight in a panelled ashlar surround beneath a bracketed segmental hood with double keystone. Flanking windows have 6/6 sashes with similar overlights in segmental-headed eared and shouldered architraves with double keystones. Pulvinated ashlar frieze and moulded eaves cornice. Decorative rainwater-head to right, dated 1901. Mansard roof with 3 dormers with 3/6 sashes beneath bold segmental pedimented hoods with modillioned cornices. Leaded base of central cupola on ridge. Round-arched gable-ends with ashlar bands and coping. End stacks with panelled sides, ashlar bands and cap. Returns have continuation of first-floor banding; right return has pair of ground-floor windows similar to front. INTERIOR: good open-well cantilevered wooden staircase with panelled closed string, square-column balusters, fluted square-column newels and ramped corniced handrail; hall and main rooms with dado rails, segmental-arched panelled doors with architraves, moulded cornices and panelled ceilings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:

Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.105; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 50).

Listing NGR: TA2768309587