Former Infants School At Clarence Street School

1097/0/10029 Former Infants' School at Clarence Str 04-DEC-01 eet School

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Education authority infants' school, now in council education and community use. 1903. Red brick with stone dressings. Plain tile hipped , half-hipped and gable-ended roofs with coped gables and corbelled brick eaves courses and small lead-clad ventilators on ridges. Brick axial stacks with moulded stone cops. PLAN: Three main classrooms open to roofs in three ranges at front with classrooms in range at rear [E]. Dutch Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: 1 storey. 4:4:4 bay west front with central half-hipped gable with four tall round-headed windows, centre two taller, right converted to doorway with stone hoodmoulds and keyblocks and small panes; gables to left and right, left set back, with two round-headed and flanking segmental-headed windows with continuous hoodmoulds, centre two with keystones rising as shafts into gables with stone panel between and third stone shaft rising through gable apex. On north and south sides and at rear [E] sash windows with segmental arches; south side has brick porch with elliptical stone arch with keyblock. INTERIOR not inspected. A good example of an early C20 education authority infants' school.