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TA 1001-1101 CAISTOR SOUTH DALE 9/84 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: TA1182401057

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