Description

YORK

SE6052NE PARK GROVE
1112-1/9/822 (South West side)
24/06/83 Park Grove School
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK GROVE
Main building at Park Grove School)

II

Board School, now County Primary School and local education
offices. 1895. By WH Brierley.
MATERIALS: brown brick in English bond on chamfered brick
plinth; dressings of plain and moulded orange brick: slate
roofs, some hipped, half hexagonal over bay windows, with
stone coping and kneelers, brick stacks and lead finials.
Ornate cast-iron tie rod ends. Tall centre range has two half
hipped dormers with sprocketed roofs and tapering finials on
each side.
All windows except where indicated otherwise have chamfered
brick quoined surrounds with hollow chamfered flat arches of
rubbed brick.
EXTERIOR: entrance front to Dudley Street: gabled front of 4
storeys and attic, set back between 3-storey projecting
crosswings; square towers rise from junctions of gable and
crosswings, left one truncated, right one tall campanile-like
chimney with stone cornice and louvred octagonal lantern
surmounted by tapering brick stack. On ground floor, gabled
front has a 3-light windows of 2 tiers of 6-pane casements
beneath moulded stone cornices, separated by gabled buttress.
Upper window is of 3 pairs of similar lights in 4 tiers with
moulded stone sill, set in round brick arch of 3 orders. In
gable apex is 2-light attic window in stone quoined surround
flanked by two squat gabled buttresses rising from sloped
attic band. Each wing has a full-height canted bay on outer
side of part-glazed double doors approached by flights of
steps: beside doors, and above, are paired 2-light windows. In
canted bays on each floor windows are single lights with stone
sills, some renewed, and sill bands and cornices of moulded
brick. First floor window cornice is continued as moulded
sillstring to windows above doors, and across wing returns.
Inner return of each wing has shallow pent-roofed porch with
moulded cornice on carved brackets over board double doors.
Fenestration is scattered, generally 6-pane casements, some of
4 panes, of 1, 2 or 3 lights with stone sills, some renewed,
over moulded brick strings.
Opposite end repeats entrance front.
Park Grove front: main range of 2 tall storeys, 15 bays; at
right end, 2-storey external boiler house masks outer return
of wing; at left end, outer return of wing has external stack,
corbelled out. First floor of main range articulated by
pilasters with moulded capitals, on high pedestals rising from

moulded first floor band, and supporting moulded eaves
cornice. Windows on both floors are 18-pane sashes in brick
quoined surrounds with cambered heads and arches on ground
floor, flat arches on first floor. Pilasters continue over
both returns of main range flanking paired 12-pane sashes,
similarly detailed. All windows have stone sills, some
renewed, and moulded brick sillstrings.
Opposite side facing Lowther Street to south-west repeats this
front with addition of 1-storey outbuilding behind ramped up
wall masking outer return of wing to north-west.
INTERIOR: not fully inspected but appears little altered.

Listing NGR: SE6083352748

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548431

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version