Caistor Primary School And School House

Caistor Primary School and School House is a primary school and associated house built between 1859 and 1860 by Maugham & Fowler. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring gabled roofs covered in red and black banded plain tiles and three brick chimneys, one of which has a shouldered form with a Star of David made of dark header bricks above a decorative plaque. The plaque reads 'Caistor Parochial School 1859' and includes a recessed plaque inscribed "This school was erected by the friends of Mr James Green Dixon as a memorial of his long and valuable services in the cause of religious education, 1859."

The facade has an irregular seven-bay arrangement. The school section is single-storey, while the school house is two storeys high. To either side of the central facade are single, five-light mullioned, horizontally hinged casement windows set within chamfered, plain surrounds. A wing projects to the left, with a three-light window in the Gothic style and three roundels above, flanked by brickwork decorated with dark diaper patterns made from burnt black headers. The gable of this wing features decorated verge details. A later 19th-century screen wall exists behind the facade, leading to a pitched gabled doorway labelled 'Boys', which is also decorated with corbelled bricks. To the right of the central section, the porch for the Girls' side has eaves running along the road and features two Gothic-style quatrefoil windows on its exposed side. The gable end of the two-storey school house is visible beyond the porch, with a modern casement window set within a 19th-century chamfered ashlar surround and a relieving arch filled with tumbled brickwork. Above this is a further modern casement in an earlier ashlar surround with a pointed relieving arch over a tympanum of tumbled brickwork. The gable overhangs and is supported by scrolled timber brackets. A low brick wall with a plinth and ashlar coping, crowned with decorative ironwork, runs in front of the building.