Brightside Nursery, Infant School Nursery and School House
BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL NURSERY AND SCHOOL HOUSE, JENKIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246495
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Brightside Nursery, Infant School Nursery and School House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL NURSERY AND SCHOOL HOUSE, JENKIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246495
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Brightside Nursery, Infant School Nursery and School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL NURSERY AND SCHOOL HOUSE, JENKIN ROAD
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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:
- BRIGHTSIDE NURSERY, INFANT SCHOOL NURSERY AND SCHOOL HOUSE, 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 38595 90709
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK39SE JENKIN ROAD 784-1/2/450 (South West side) Brightside Nursery, Infant School nursery school & school house
GV II
Nursery school and adjoining school house. 1880, with mid C20 alterations. By ER Robson. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. Flemish Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth and coped gables of various forms. School, to left, single storey plus attics; 9 window range. H-plan. Windows are mainly wooden framed casements. School yard front has 2 cross casements, each flanked by smaller single windows. In the centre, a buttress. Above, 2 raking dormers with 4-light cross casements. Rear has similar fenestration. Cross-wing, to left, has coped gables with a projecting centre topped with a panel supported by volutes and crowned with a segmental pediment and finial. Above, a single transomed window and below, 3 round-arched recesses each with a similar smaller window. Left return has a central external stack with crowstepped shoulders and coped flue, framing a round-arched recess. In the recess, a door flanked to left by a single windows, and above, a segment-arched window with patterned glazing bars. To left, 2 large cross casements. Rear gable has a central segment-headed window with transom, overlight and keystone. Shorter right wing has similar fenestration to rear gable and right return. School house, at right front corner, 3 storeys plus attics; 2 x 2 windows. Square plan. Swept coped gables topped with segmental pediments and coped gable stacks, flanked by coped square shafts. Jenkin Road front has to left a slightly projecting square stair turret, 4 stages, with a shaped gable and finial. On each floor, a plain sash. To right, a 12-pane sash and above it, a C20 tilting casement. Below, an ashlar doorcase with board door flanked by single small casements, under a common lintel with cornice. Left return has 2 round-arched blanks, the left with a late C20 window inserted, and above, a central plain sash with projecting surround. Below, a door with overlight, flanked by a cross casement to left and a small window to right. 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455283
- 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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