Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and Attached Caretakers House
Lowfield Primary School, London Road, Sheffield, S2 4NJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246532
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and Attached Caretakers House
- Statutory Address:
- Lowfield Primary School, London Road, Sheffield, S2 4NJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246532
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and Attached Caretakers House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lowfield Primary School, London Road, Sheffield, S2 4NJ
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:
- Lowfield Primary School, London Road, Sheffield, S2 4NJ
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 35223 85423
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 October 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SK38NE
784-1/6/484
SHEFFIELD
LONDON ROAD (east side)
Lowfield Primary School
Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house
(Formerly listed as Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house, LONDON ROAD)
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II
Junior and infant schools and attached caretaker's house. Dated 1874, with additions and caretaker's house 1877. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs. School has three lozenge-shaped ridge stacks, one with an attached single gabled ventilator, the others with multiple flues linked by arched ventilators with louvred openings. Gothic Revival style. L-plan with projecting polygonal corner.
EXTERIOR: plinth, impost band, chamfered eaves, coped gables, small gabled roof ventilators. Single storey plus attics; 10 x 6 windows. London Road front has an off-centre main gable with a pointed arched recess containing two tall lancets alternating with three shorter lancets, all with transoms. Above the window, a shaped plaque and datestone. To left, a single stage square bell tower with string course and dentilled eaves to a pyramidal roof topped with an octagonal spire, with finial and louvred bell openings. To left, a range with an off-centre segment-headed blocked door with overlight, flanked to left by three casements and to right by two casements, all with trefoil carved lintels. Beyond, a polygonal projection with conical roof and six windows. Left return has five shouldered windows, and to left, a gabled wing with a pointed arched recess containing a triple lancet. To right, a range with two shouldered two-light windows, then a single window. Above, a gabled dormer with a shouldered window. Beyond, two storey gabled caretaker's house with a gable stack. Renewed first floor casement and below, cusped headed doorway to left, and shouldered casement to right.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest to be built in England after the 1870 Education Act. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3522385423
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455356
- 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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