Rhyl Primary School And Nursery And Attached Railings And Wall

CAMDEN

TQ2884NW RHYL STREET 798-1/53/1386 (South side) Rhyl Primary School and Nursery and attached railings & wall

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Board School, now a Primary School and Nursery. 1897-8. By TJ Bailey. For the School Board for London. Yellow stock brick, channelled to ground floor of 2 central bays, with red brick and stone dressings. Symmetrical design of 8 bays in Classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Outer bays projecting, penultimate bays narrow and slightly recessed with entrances (left hand modernised), 2 central bays slightly projecting. All except entrance bays defined by brick pilasters rising through the 1st and 2nd floors, with stone bases, bands and carved Ionic capitals with swags, to carry the entablature with stone cornice and brick blocking course; outer bays with pediments fronting tiled roofs instead of blocking course. Ground and 1st floor windows having gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes with exposed boxing; 2nd floor segmental-arched, the central 2 bays and outer bays with shaped brick aprons. Left hand outer bay windows mostly blind. Appearing above the blocking course, 2 stepped chimneys with small pediments. Rear facade to Marsden Street of interest with projecting pedimented outer bays in similar style then bays of small paired sashes, 2 deep to each floor, (top floors with enriched aprons) to right and left of towers, with paired sashes and pyramidal roofs of curved profile terminating in lanterns with ogee finials, which flank a central 5 window bay having arcading, with banded pilasters, to 1st floor, 2nd floor sill cornice and 3rd floor brick pilasters supporting a subsidiary cornice beneath a stepped parapet. Hipped roof with 3 small dormers having tall conical roofs. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached railings with urn finials on low brick wall.

Listing NGR: TQ2833484823