BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL MAIN BLOCK

BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL MAIN BLOCK, JENKIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246494
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL MAIN BLOCK
Statutory Address:: BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL MAIN BLOCK, JENKIN ROAD

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Date:: 2002-07-07
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246494
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL MAIN BLOCK
Statutory Address 1:: BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL MAIN BLOCK, JENKIN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL MAIN BLOCK, JENKIN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 38585 90675

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK39SE JENKIN ROAD 784-1/2/449 (South West side) Brightside Nursery, Infant School main block

GV II

Primary school. 1880, with mid C20 alterations. By ER Robson. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched gabled and hipped slate roofs, the main roof topped with a swept-sided stone bell turret with single round-arched opening. 2 ridge and single side wall stacks. E-plan. EXTERIOR: first floor band, coped main gables. 2 storeys; 5 x 4 windows. East front, to school yard, has 3 through-eaves dormers with a segment-arched double sash with keystone and traceried central light to fanlight. Between each pair of dormers, a flat-headed double sash. Below, 5 segment-arched double sashes with transoms and tripartite fanlights. Each gable is topped with a pedestal and segmental pediment, and has a large round-arched window in a recess, flanked by single smaller segment-arched windows in the same style. Below, a round-arched central window with keystone, flanked by smaller flat-headed windows. Rear gables have identical features. Each return has a gabled through-eaves dormer with segment-arched double sash and keystone, and below, a similar window. Hipped central rear projection has 2 large 3-light cross casements and below, 2 double sashes with wooden mullions. Below these, single storey full width mid C20 brick addition with coped parapet. Beyond, on either side, a single window on each floor. INTERIOR not inspected. Almost all the early schools built by the Sheffield School Board were designed by local architects. ER Robson, architect to the London School Board, was employed to design the Central Schools and School Board Offices (qv), as well as 2 board schools, of which this is one. The other is at Heeley Bank (qv), and dates from 1880. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3858590675

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Legacy System number:: 455282
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.