Education Department Offices

Education offices, built between 1900 and 1901 for Great Grimsby School Board, designed by HC Scaping of Grimsby, with Hewins and Goodhand as builders. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring limestone ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. It exemplifies the Edwardian Classical style.

The rectangular building comprises a two-room front with an entrance staircase hall to the left. The exterior is two storeys high with an attic, and has five bays. It includes a moulded ashlar plinth that sweeps up to form aprons beneath the windows, and flush ashlar bands on the first floor. The entrance on the left side features an Ionic doorcase with marble columns, an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and modillioned segmental pediment. The doorway itself is recessed, containing a two-fold panelled door and overlight, all set within a segmental-arched surround of rusticated blockwork with a keyed architrave. Windows to the right have 6/6 sash windows in similar keyed rusticated surrounds with corniced sills. An apron beneath the central window displays a marble foundation stone dated 29 November 1900 and noting the architect, builder, and other details. The first floor showcases a symmetrical arrangement, dominated by a central segmental-bowed ashlar oriel and four sashes linked by a sill string course and three flush ashlar bands. The oriel is supported by carved brackets and includes a moulded apron adorned with a relief carving of the town's seal depicting Grim and Havloc the Dane. A 6/6 sash with a 3-pane segmental overlight is positioned beneath a bracketed segmental hood with a double keystone. Flanking windows share a similar design, with 6/6 sashes and overlights within segmental-headed eared and shouldered architraves, each featuring double keystones. A pulvinated ashlar frieze and a moulded eaves cornice complete the exterior. A decorative rainwater head dated 1901 is present on the right side. The Mansard roof is finished with three dormers, each featuring a 3/6 sash window beneath a bold segmental-pedimented hood with modillioned cornices. The ridge is topped with a leaded base of a central cupola. Round-arched gable-ends feature ashlar bands and coping. End stacks have panelled sides with ashlar bands and capping. Returns show a continuity of the first-floor banding, and the right return includes a pair of ground-floor windows mirroring those at the front.

The interior boasts a good open-well cantilevered wooden staircase with a panelled closed string, square-column balusters, fluted square-column newels, and a ramped corniced handrail. Hallways and main rooms are characterized by dado rails, segmental-arched panelled doors with architraves, moulded cornices, and panelled ceilings.