Description

YORK

SE65SW HAXBY ROAD
1112-1/2/435 (East side)
01/07/68 Haxby Road School

II

Primary school. 1903-4. By WH Brierley.
MATERIALS: orange-brown brick in English bond on chamfered
brick plinth; dressings of orange brick and ashlar and ashlar
quoins: roof of Westmorland slate with widely projecting eaves
on timber brackets and louvred leaded cupola with lead finial.
Brick stacks with stone cornices. Integral rainwater goods and
guttering on scrolled brackets of cast-iron; ornate hoppers
dated 1903.
EXTERIOR: north (street) front: 2-storey 7-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 is articulated by
full-height pilasters beneath egg-and-dart frieze and moulded
stone mutule cornice. On ground floor each bay has paired tall
segment-arched 15-pane sash windows with continuous sills: on
first floor, 3-light mullioned and double transomed square
latticed windows with moulded sills are recessed beneath
segmental arches.
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, some now altered to part
glazed doors. First floor windows are 9-pane top hung lights
with plain stone sills and flat brick arches. On second floor
there are two 6-pane top hung windows to each bay, each
recessed in segmental arch on squat pilasters, over moulded
stone sill band. Above is moulded and dentilled brick eaves
cornice beneath stone coping.
Crosswings have windows on first floor only: these are 12-pane
sashes with stone sills and brick arches, centre window having
top hung transom light.
Playground front: 2 storeys; 3:1:15:1:3 windows arranged in
triplets, the centre ones on first floor rising as through
eaves 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 ground floor are
deeply recessed double doors approached by flights of steps,
on first floor a round headed small pane window. Ground floor
windows are 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.
East and west returns: 2 storeys, 7 bays. Deeply splayed round
arch 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 through eaves dormers flank
paired 6-pane casements, all with moulded stone sills. In east
return, windows on ground floor partly blocked with blind
panels. At south end is attached boiler stack in the form of a
campanile, square on plan, with segment-arched sunk panelled
faces with brick corbelled stone cornice and triple keyblocks;
summit surmounted by louvred lantern and tapering pot.
External doors have incised panels with 4-pane lights above.
INTERIOR: not fully inspected but layout and original fittings
appear largely intact.

Listing NGR: SE6102651980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549008

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