Frodingham Infants School and The School House

The Frodingham Infants School and The School House were built in 1867, with additions in 1874, as part of Rowland Winn’s industrial settlement of New Frodingham. The building is constructed of rock-faced ironstone with red and yellow brick dressings, stacks and a slate roof. It is of Gothic Revival style, with a central courtyard plan, having classroom ranges on three sides and the schoolhouse on the fourth.

The school’s single-storey entrance range is of four bays, with a projecting gabled wing to the left and a two-storey schoolhouse of two bays projecting under a gable to the right. The school has a pointed-arch doorway with a raised chamfered brick surround, containing a pair of plank doors with decorative wrought iron hinges and escutcheons. A glazed door is set within a brick surround to the right. Groups of three and four flat-headed lancet-type windows are present, featuring chamfered brick mullions and surrounds.

The schoolhouse possesses a pointed-arch entrance with a raised chamfered brick surround and a part-glazed door with wrought iron details. Above the ground floor windows, the schoolhouse has a first-floor cogged brick cornice between projecting courses, with similar windows above. Weathered ashlar panels are visible in brick surrounds to both projecting gables. A bold dentilled cornice of red and yellow brick runs along the building, with wooden gutters and cast-iron down-pipes. The steeply-pitched roof has crested ridge tiles and tall axial polychrome brick stacks with cogged cornices and diamond-shafted chimneys. A bell is suspended on the left return and there is a datestone marking 1874 at the gable end. Further classroom ranges and outbuildings are designed in a similar style.