Ossett Grammar School Formerly Known As Park House

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OSSETT STORRS HILL ROAD (west side, off), South Ossett Ossett Grammar School formerly known as Park House.

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Mill owner's house now part of school. 3rd quarter of C19. Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys and attic. Gothic style. An ordered near- symmetrical T-plan comprising a 5-bay range with a 2-bay x 2-bay leg. Two main entrances in the front side of the cross-range one on each side of the leg, that to right, formerly in a porch now obscured by an incongruous single-storey addition. The left one is deeply moulded and arched with a small embattled cornice. Above this is an elaborate carved panel of foiled circles. Windows are all mullioned and transomed and the upper tier of lights have foiled heads. Some windows have a deep hoodmould, others have a moulded cornice on ornamental brackets The leg of the T has 3-light windows, those to ground-floor right side now under the addition. The end of the T is of 2 gabled bays of 3-light windows except ground-floor left which is a 5-light canted bay. Slender single lights in each gable apex. The ends of the cross-range are also of 2 gabled bays the outer ones projecting slightly further. Similar details, link to ground floor of left wing. Staircase window to right wing. 5-bay symmetrical garden front, the centre bay breaking forward and gabled with quatrefoil in apex. 6-light central ground-floor square bay. 2-light lst-floor central window with cornice. Other windows are 2-light with hoodmoulds. Ground floor left link to additions none of which are included in item. Crenellated parapets, coped gables, symmetrically-arranged ornamental ashlar stacks, some of which retain the ashlar pots. Interior: the hall has a tiled floor and a panelled ceiling of octagons and squares. Hall fireplace with trippled colonnettes with foliated capitals supporting a heavy canopy. Staircase of cusped, arched panels and a balustrade pierced with quatrefoils. Quatrefoil newels with heavy gableted and foliated ends. Stair arch, elaborately moulded on responds of 3 clustered colonnettes. Small stained glass panel in stair window with hanging ram symbol of the woollen industry of the area. Arched doorways with panelled reveals and spandrel decoration of foliage and flowers etc, all different. The house was owned by the Ellis family and became a school in 1906 (tablet by left main entrance).

Listing NGR: SE2790819279