Shepley First School
SHEPLEY FIRST SCHOOL, FIRTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135357
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shepley First School
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPLEY FIRST SCHOOL, FIRTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135357
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shepley First School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPLEY FIRST SCHOOL, FIRTH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPLEY FIRST SCHOOL, FIRTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkburton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 19426 09650
Details
SE 10 NE FIRTH STREET Shepley 8/33 Shepley First School
II
Former Board School. Dated 1896. Pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Free Northern Renaissance style. Two- storey central hall surrounded by single storey classrooms, three of which run across the front and have the main entrances between. Central gabled part with large elliptical arched window with slender Ionic colonnettes as mullions, and one transom, surmounted by steep pediment with elaborate carving in tympanum, flanked and surmounted by urns. Classroom to each side forms separate pavilion with pyramidal roof and small clerestory window surmounted by gablet. Between the classrooms are the girls' and boys' entrances with bulbous engaged Ionic columns and tall swan-necked and enriched pediments.
The clerestory of the hall rises behind as a wide gable flanked by octagonal buttresses which terminate in richly carved cartouches and domical cap. The detail resembles the central gable at the front, but with swagged frieze and inscription at apex "1896 BOARD SCHOOLS", topped by small, flat shell-head.
A particularly elaborate example of its type.
Listing NGR: SE1942609650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341149
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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