Description

YORK

SE55SE POPPLETON ROAD
1112-1/1/872 (North East side)
01/07/68 Poppleton Road School

II

Primary school. 1903-4, restored 1942 following bomb damage.
By WH Brierley.
MATERIALS: red brick in English bond on chamfered brick
plinth; dressings and arcading in orange brick; stone quoins
and doorcases. Westmorland slate roofs with timber
bargeboarded gables; gabled dormers have lead roofs. Brick
boiler stack with moulded stone cornice and lantern surmounted
by tapering brick pot. Integral rainwater goods of cast-iron
and lead, dated on hoppers.
EXTERIOR: Street front: 2-storey 6-bay centre range between
3-storey 4-bay ranges set back and linking to 2-storey 3-bay
crosswings with open pedimented gables. Centre range and
crosswings are quoined. Centre range arcaded in 6 segmental
arches: within each arch on ground floor are set paired tall
15-pane sash windows with continuous sills; on first floor,
3-light mullioned and double transomed square latticed windows
with moulded stone sills. Linking ranges are articulated by
2-storey arcades of shallow segmental brick arches with stone
imposts. The inner bay to each has moulded doorcase with
double doors and blind tympanum, approached by flight of
steps. Outer bays have squat 6-pane windows on ground floor.
On first floor are 9-pane top hung windows with plain stone
sills and flat brick arches. On second floor there are two
6-pane top hung windows to each bay, each in segment-arched
recess over moulded stone sill band. Above are dentilled and
moulded eaves cornices of brick beneath moulded stone coping.
Crosswings have windows on first floor only: they are 12-pane
sashes with stone sills and brick arches, the centre window
having a top hung transom light.
Playground front: 2 storeys with basement; 3:1:15:1:3 windows
arranged as triplets, the centre ones on first floor rising as
half-dormers into 2-centred gabled heads. End triplets set
beneath open pedimented gables. 1-window bays are full-height
round arches with prominent keyblocks: on basement and ground
floors are deeply recessed double doors, on first floor a
round-headed small-pane window. Balcony to ground floor door
has balustrade with scrollwork centre panel incorporating
initials Y and C. Otherwise, basement windows are squat
segment-arched lights, most with glazing bars, some blocked;
on ground floor tall 15-pane lights with top hung transom
lights; on first floor, centre windows of triplets as on first
floor, flanked by 12-pane lights.
Both returns: 2 storeys, 7 bays. Deep segment-arched recess in
centre has moulded stone doorcase containing double doors and
segment-headed small-pane overlight. To one side 12-pane sash

window, to the other, three tall 15-pane windows, all having
stone sills and segmental brick arches. On first floor,
12-pane sashes rising into half-dormers flank paired 6-pane
casements, all with moulded stone sills.
North-west return towards Landing Lane has attached boiler
stack in the form of a campanile, square on plan, with sunk
panelled segment-headed faces and brick corbelled stone
cornice with triple keyblock: summit surmounted by louvred
lantern and tapering pot.
External doors have incised panels with 4-pane lights above.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York:
Edinburgh: 1980-: 292).

Listing NGR: SE5812652187

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548328

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)