Description

BILLINGBOROUGH VICTORIA STREET
TF 1034-11234
(west side)
4/35 School and School-
master's House
II

School and schoolmaster's house. 1876. Red brick and stock
brick. Slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, stone coped
gables with kneelers, ornate stone and wrought iron finials,
decorative brick eaves and 5 tall lateral stacks with moulded,
decorative brick heads. 2 storey, 3 bay schoolmaster's house to
left with stock brick dressed plinth, stock brick quoins and
first floor band. Slightly projecting gable to right. Central
doorway with hood supported on single chamfered, broached column
and plank door. Rectangular bay window to right with decorated
eaves, a plain sash flanked by single, narrow plain sashes, and
all with triangular stock brick dressed heads. Window to right
with a plain sash flanked by single, narrow plain sashes with
triangular stock brick dressed heads. 3 plain sashes above, all
with stock brick dressed triangular heads. Stock brick oculus
above in gable. Single storey 5 bay school attached to right
with stock brick dressed plinth, stock brick quoins and 2 stock
brick bands. 3 gabled bays alternate with 2 narrow bays, the
central bay larger and projecting further forward. Central
window with 4 rectangular lights with transom, stock brick
quoins, 3 small stock brick arches above set in larger stock
brick pointed head containing stock brick round window with
radiating spokes. Window flanked by single narrow casements with
rectangular lintels. Foundation stone below inscribed with date
"1876". Outer bays each with single window of 3 rectangular
lights with stock brick quoins, 3 small stock brick pointed heads
above set in larger stock brick pointed head containing stock
brick round window with radiating spokes. Re-entrant bays each
with a single doorway with stock brick triangular head, overlight
and plank door. 2 gabled dormers to north with small, pointed
trefoil headed windows.

Listing NGR: TF1168934484

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26316111

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