New School Buildings and Master’s House Lymm Cheshire

LYMM - The new grammar school at Lymm is to be opened at Easter next. The buildings, which form one block 120 feet in length, include a house for the head-master, as well as the school proper. The latter consists of a large school 40 feet by 20 feet and 18 feet high, classroom 20 feet square, assistant master's room, lavatories, and entrance hall. Above the classroom and entrance hall is a spacious dormitory, 30 feet by 20ft , divided into separate cubicles, and also a bathroom. The staircase is continued up so as to form a tower, finished with a high-pitched roof. The schoolrooms are warmed and ventilated by means of a hot water apparatus on the high-pressure system (fixed by Mr. R. Gibbs: of Liverpool), fresh air being admitted by vertical tubes, and the foul air extracted by Messrs. Boyle's air pump ventilators. Externally the building is a substantial brick structure of a simple Gothic character. The outer walls are solid, 15in. thick, the bricks being laid with a filling in of fine cement concrete. Mr. F. R. Hawxby, of Cross-street, Manchester, was the architect, and Mr James Hamilton of Altrincham, the builder. [Building News 6 February 1885 page 228]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 4 December 1883 page 1 – contracts
Reference    Manchester Guardian 8 December 1883 page 4 – contracts
Reference    Northwich Guardian 31 January 1885 page 5