Description

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE SOMERSET STREET
680-1/8/351 (North East side)
Social Services Adult Education
Centre and attached railings

II

Former board school, now social services and adult education
centre, and attached railings. 1881. By W Freeman, with late
C20 alterations. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar
dressings and slate roofs with coped gables, gabled
ventilators, and 3 square louvred bell turrets with pyramidal
roofs. Gothic Revival style. Single storey; 19-window range.
Windows have stone mullions and transoms.
Near symmetrical front has a central gable with a graduated
window with central triple lancet flanked by single lancets,
with blank heads and hoodmoulds.
To right, 2 flat-headed cross casements, then a projecting
porch topped with a shouldered gabled single bell turret.
Pointed arched doorway with inscribed tympnum and hoodmould,
with a pair of doors. To right again, a gabled through-eaves
dormer with a traceried triple lancet and hoodmould, flanked
by single buttresses and beyond, single cross casements.
Above, two 2-light box dormers with glazed roofs. To right
again, a projecting gable with a graduated triple window.
To left, a gabled through eaves dormer with plate traceried
triple lancet, flanked by single buttresss and beyond, single
cross casements. To left again, a gabled porch with
pointed-arched door and traceried and inscribed tympanum,
flanked by 2 cross casements. Left gable has 2 double lancets
and a round window above them, under a common hoodmould.
Above, 4 gablet ventilators. Left return has to left a
projecting gable with 2 lancets, and to right a buttressed
range with 2 through-eaves dormers with 3-light cross
casements, flanked by single cross casements.
Outside, railings with fleur-de-lys heads, chamfered brick
plinth and brick piers with pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: TA0737327917

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584628

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