Netherthorpe Junior School and Adjoining Caretakers House and Walls

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SHEFFIELD

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

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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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Innocent, , Brown, , Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools, (1874)

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