Description

TA 1001-1101
9/84

CAISTOR
SOUTH DALE
Caistor Primary School and School House

II

Primary school, and house, built as the National School 1859-60
by Maugham & Fowler. Brick with ashlar dressings, gabled roofs
with red and black banded plain tiles. One ridge and 2 wall
stacks. Irregular seven bay front, school is single storey, the
school house of 2 storeys. Near the centre of the facade is a
chimney of shouldered form with a Star of David in dark header
bricks above a decorative plaque bearing the motto'Caistor
Parochial School 1859' and a recessed rectangular plaque
inscribed, 'This school was erected by the friends of Mr James
Green Dixon as a memorial of his long and valuable serivices in
the cause of religious education, 1859'. To either side are
single 5 light mullioned horizontally hinged casement windows in
chamfered plain surrounds. To the left a wing projects to the
road and in the gable is a 3 light window in the Gothick style
with 3 roundels over, flanked by brickwork decorated with dark
diapers made up of burnt black headers; the gable has a decorated
verge. Behind a later C19 screen wall, the facade terminates in
a pitched gabled doorway labelled 'Boys': this gable is also
decorated with corbelled bricks. To the right of the central
element, the porch for the Girls side is eaves on to the road and
contains 2 Gothic style quatrefoil windows in its exposed side.
Beyond is the gable end of the school house of 2 storeys with a
plain C20 casement window in a C19 chamfered ashlar surround
beneath relieving arch filled with tumbled brickwork. On the
first floor is a further C20 casement with an earlier ashlar
surround with a pointed relieving arch over a 'tympanum' of
tumbled brickwork. The gable overhangs and is supported on
scrolled timber brackets. There is a low brick wall with plinth
and ashlar coping crowned with decorative ironwork before the
buildings.

Listing NGR: TA1176401092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26316735

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)