NETHERTHORPE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND WALLS

NETHERTHORPE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND WALLS, NETHERTHORPE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246682
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: NETHERTHORPE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND WALLS
Statutory Address:: NETHERTHORPE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND WALLS, NETHERTHORPE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246682
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: NETHERTHORPE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: NETHERTHORPE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND WALLS, NETHERTHORPE STREET

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:: NETHERTHORPE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND WALLS, NETHERTHORPE STREET

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 34603 87828

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK3487NE NETHERTHORPE STREET 784-1/18/529 (North West side) Netherthorpe Junior School and adjoining caretaker's house and walls

II

Board school, now Junior school, adjoining caretaker's house, railing and walls. School 1873, with additions 1884. Caretaker's house 1878. By Innocent and Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs coated with grey composition. 3 paired stone ridge stacks with louvred ventilators between them. Gothic Revival style. T-plan. EXTERIOR: plinth, sillbands, coped gables. 2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics; 12 window range. Symmetrical front has a slightly projecting central gable with angle buttresses. 2 large transomed 3-light pointed arch windows with plate tracery and hoodmoulds, and above, in the gable, a single lancet bell opening with a coat of arms below it, flanked by thinner single lancet bell openings. Below, 2 round-headed transomed 3-light windows. On either side, wings with 2 flat-headed mullioned windows above and 2 round-headed transomed 3-light windows below. Beyond, single bow fronted stair turrets with 3 cusped headed single lancets. Below, between floors, a single trefoil headed lancet. On the ground floor, the right turret only has a trefoil headed lancet with hoodmould. In the return angles, a single similar window. Beyond again, single entrance bays with 2-light mullioned windows and below, a pair of double doors with a large cusped headed overlight. Projecting end gables have a large transomed 3-light pointed arch windows with cusped heads and below, 2 round-headed 3-light windows with wooden cross mullions. Hipped rear wing has 6 paired first-floor windows on a sillband. Double hipped rear elevation has a similar central window, and below, a pair of windows with transoms, flanked by similar single windows, all segment-headed. Adjoining caretaker's house has gabled and hipped slate roofs with coped gables and a large rear gable stack. 2 storeys plus garrets; 2 window range. Front, to Dover Street, has to right a single window and to left a smaller window with incised lintel, both on a sillband. Above, a larger single window to the garret. Below, a similar window to right, flanked to left by a door with overlight. Right return has a single ground floor window. All these windows have late C20 glazing. Several caretakers' houses of this design were added to board schools in 1877-78. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, adjoining stone boundary wall with triangular stone coping and attached outbuildings, enclosing the school site. Netherthorpe Street front has a spiked wrought-iron railing with stone plinth and chamfered coping, and 2 pairs of wrought-iron gates. Dover Street range has a short length off-centre with a gateway to the caretaker's house. To right, a rounded corner with an attached hipped single storey outbuilding. To left, a similar hipped outbuilding, then a rounded corner. HISTORICAL NOTE: this school is the earliest to survive of those designed by Innocent and Brown for the Sheffield School Board. It is amongst the first to be built in England after the 1870 Education Act, and is therefore of particular interest. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council; Innocent & Brown: Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools (etc): Sheffield: 1873-).

Listing NGR: SK3460387828

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Legacy System number:: 455689
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Sources

Books and journals
Innocent, , Brown, , Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools, (1874)

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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.