Description

YORK

SE55SE FRONT STREET, Acomb
1112-1/1/1198 (South side)
30/09/92 Former Junior School Building at
Acomb County Primary School &
attached railing

GV II

Former Junior School, now part of Primary School. 1894, and
C20 additions. Designed by Walter Brierley of Demaine and
Brierley of York. Red brick with ashlar dressings and
Westmorland slate roofs with raised ashlar coped gables. 2
ridge, 2 rear wall and 2 corner stacks.
PLAN: U-plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey. Moulded brick eaves cornice. North,
Front Street, elevation has projecting central block topped by
a square leaded tower with a clock to each face and an
octagonal domed cupola supported on 8 wooden columns with
weathervane finial. Two pairs of tall, 32 pane, glazing bar
casements with flat brick heads and keystones rise through the
eaves into 2 tall gables. Left and right returns each have a
single tall, 48 pane, glazing bar casement with similar heads.
Side wings, set back at either side, each have crow-stepped
gables to both north and south. Each front has 3 graduated
windows, the central taller ones 24 pane glazing bar casements
with keyed segmental arch heads, the flanking windows 12 pane
glazing bar casements with flat heads. The outer front of both
wings to east and west each has a central pair of tall, 32
pane glazing bar casements with flat brick heads, each window
rising through the eaves into paired curved gables.
Rear, playground elevation, has a recessed centre with a
1-storey lean to extension. Above, between the pair of rear
wall stacks, an 8-light continuous dormer window. Central late
C20 projecting flat roof addition: in the corners single
projecting porches with segment-headed doorways.
INTERIOR: original glazed dividing screens between the
classrooms, original doors, and cupboards plus 2 original
tiled fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, attached low brick wall with
chamfered ashlar coping with tall railings and gates along
Front Street.

Listing NGR: SE5752851359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549124

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