Description

GRIMSBY

TA2709NE HENEAGE ROAD
699-1/18/40 (West side)
31/10/74 Former Holme Hill School and
attached Master's House
(Formerly Listed as:
HENEAGE ROAD
(West side)
Holme Hill School)

GV II

School and attached schoolmaster's house, now Education and
Child Guidance Centre. 1876-8 by Charles Bell of London,
architect, and JM Thompson of Louth, builder, for the Great
Grimsby School Board. C20 alterations and repairs. Red brick
in English bond with yellow brick and limestone ashlar
dressings. Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style. School
approximately rectangular on plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey with 3-storey clock tower over main
entrance. Single-bay projecting wings linked by 3-bay and
4-bay sections, in the sequence 1:3:1:4:1(tower):3:1. Stepped
plinth; quoins to angles and openings. Angle buttresses to
central tower, pair of buttresses flanking the central 2 bays
of the 4-bay section. 3-stage tower has stone steps to
entrance with pointed moulded ashlar arch with flush impost
band and outer brick arch. Inner door beneath pointed brick
arch of 3 stepped orders. Stone plaque over entrance dated
1877 has central roundel bearing relief carving of the town
seal with figures of Grim and Havelock the Dane, above which
is a stone band, with a recessed panel bearing the inscription
"GREAT GRIMSBY PUBLIC ELEMENTARY BOARD SCHOOL". Second stage
has a pair of lancet windows with a flush ashlar band at
springer level. Panel between second and third stages with
flush ashlar bands enclosing 6 courses of cogged brick, above
which is a pointed moulded arch with a recessed ashlar panel
containing a circular clockface above a frieze of 4 roundels;
moulded arch with carved string course at impost level. Above
is an ornate parapet with miniature machicolations and pierced
roundels, small elaborate angle turrets with conical caps and
finials. Pyramidal roof with bellcote capped by spirelet with
lucarnes and weather-vane.
Side ranges have 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with
flush sill bands. Range to left has entrance with panelled
door beneath pointed trefoiled arch with hoodmould. Gabled
sections have 3-light mullioned and transomed windows beneath
pointed arches with plain yellow brick panels; flush ashlar

bands. Gabled bay to far right has foundation stone recording
date 18 May 1878 and names of architect and builder.
Right return, facing Wellington Street, has gabled bay
breaking forward to the far right and 3 windows to the left,
with similar details to main front.
Adjoining 2-storey former schoolmaster's house, fronting
Wellington Street, now incorporated in Education Centre.
Similar style and materials to main school range.
Approximately L-shaped on plan, with gabled wing to front and
wing to rear right, with lower range containing entrance set
back in angle. 2 storeys; irregular front with 2 first-floor
windows. Chamfered ashlar plinth, quoins, flush ashlar sill
and impost bands, first-floor string course and 1/1
plate-glass sashes to front. Projecting gabled section has
ground-floor canted brick and ashlar bay window beneath hipped
roof, twin ashlar lancet windows to first floor with
hoodmoulds beneath herringbone brick panel and pointed brick
relieving arch. Section set back to right has open porch with
dwarf coped walls and a pair of cast-iron piers carrying a
lean-to roof over a segmental-arched door; first-floor ashlar
lancet window beneath brick arch.
Right return has single staircase window to left between flush
ashlar bands and beneath segmental brick relieving arch;
projecting wing to right has ground-floor 2/2 sash beneath
segmental brick relieving arch, first-floor 2/2 sash beneath
lintel and half-hipped roof; pitched roofs to remainder.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
The first major school built in Grimsby following the 1870
Education Act. Charles Bell won the nationwide competition for
its design.
Forms part of a notable group of Victorian and Edwardian
educational and religious buildings built on land provided by
the Heneage Estate (see under Sir Moses Montefiore Synagogue
for details).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339-340; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby
Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: 48; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby
Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local
architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council:
1972-: NO.102).

Listing NGR: TA2780109679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660076

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (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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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6