Frodingham Infants School and The School House

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SCUNTHORPE ROWLAND ROAD (north side) Frodingham Infants School and No 96 (The School House)

(Formerly listed as Frodingham Infants School and No 46, The School House)

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School and former schoolmaster's house, the latter now used as offices by the Workers' Educational Association. 1867, with additions of 1874, for Rowland Winn as part of his industrial settlement of New Frodingham. Rock-faced ironstone with red and yellow brick dressings and stacks; slate roof. Gothic Revival style. Central courtyard plan, with classroom ranges on three sides and schoolhouse on fourth. One and two storeys: single-storey entrance range of four bays has single bay projecting gabled wing to left, and two-storey schoolhouse of two bays projecting under gable to right. Brick-capped plinth rising under windows; raised brick quoins.

School has pointed-arch doorway with raised chamfered brick surround containing a pair of plank doors with decorative wrought iron hinges and escutcheons. c1960 glazed door in brick surround in angle to right. Pointed-arch schoolhouse entrance has raised chamfered brick surround and part-glazed door with wrought iron details. School has groups of three and four flat-headed lancet-type windows with chamfered brick mullions and surrounds.

Schoolhouse has a smaller similar pair to ground floor, a first floor cogged brick cornice between projecting courses, and similar windows above. Weathered ashlar panels in brick surrounds to both projecting gables. Bold dentilled cornice in red and yellow brick, wooden gutters, cast-iron down-pipes. Steeply-pitched roof with crested ridge tiles and tall axial polychrome brick stacks with cogged cornices and diamond-shafted chimneys. Left return has suspended bell and 1874 datestone at gable end. Further classroom ranges and outbuildings in similar design.

Listing NGR: SE8977410786