Description

GRIMSBY

TA2709NE ELEANOR STREET
699-1/18/32 (North side)
15/08/95 Grimsby College of Art and Design

GV II

School, now College of Art and Design. 1894 by HC Scaping of
Grimsby; Hewins and Goodhand, builders, for Great Grimsby
School Board. Red brick in English bond and English garden
wall bond, with sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof.
Flemish style. Approximately rectangular on plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 7 bays to front, arranged 2:1:1:1:2, with
a projecting 3-bay central section with a recessed centre bay
flanked by wide gabled bays, and 2-bay side wings. Moulded
brick plinth, flush ashlar bands and moulded ashlar string
courses linking the window sills, keystones and transoms.
Central section has 5 ground-floor cross-windows beneath
rusticated arches with tall fluted keystones and raised apron
panels below the sill string course. Below the central window
is a marble foundation plaque for the First Higher Grade
School, dated 29 October 1894. To the left is a
finely-inscribed C20 slate plaque by Philip Pape of Barton on
Humber, a former Art College teacher, recording burials of
former school members. Above the window is an 1894 marble
plaque in a carved ashlar surround naming the building as the
Winterigham Higher Grade School, recording the School Board
Members, architect and builders. First floor: pair of narrow
windows to centre bay divided by a brick pilaster; tripartite
windows to each side with central cross windows. The central
pilaster carries a pulvinated dosseret and a shaped carved
stone panel with the weathered remains of a roundel bearing
the town seal, the panel forming an apron to a second-floor
cross-window. Bays to each side have tripartite windows with
similar cross-windows flanked by shorter narrower lights.
Coped parapet to centre bay with a central brick pier carrying
an ashlar cap with ball finial.
Side bays have coped stepped gables with corner piers and
ornate centrepieces with corbelled pilasters, moulded cornices
and ashlar panels with medallions in carved surrounds; the
piers and pilasters with ball finials.
Wings have segmental-arched staircase windows with keystones
and hoodmoulds. All windows have moulded wood reveals, ovolo
mullions and transoms, glazing bars, and segmental brick
arches with fluted ashlar keystones and hoodmoulds. Moulded
ashlar eaves cornice. Prominent downpipes with shaped
rainwater-heads. Hipped roof with finials. Central octagonal

cupola with tall onion dome and needle finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a
trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 50-51).

Listing NGR: TA2770609573

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660059

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