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SHEFFIELD
SK38NW BOLE HILL ROAD
784-1/5/87 (South East side)
22/06/95 Bole Hill Primary School and
adjoining boundary wall and shelter
GV II
Primary school and adjoining boundary wall and shelter. 1896,
with mid C20 alterations. By WJ Hale. For the Sheffield School
Board. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and
hipped slate roofs topped with an elaborate octagonal wooden
bell turret, 3 stages, with swept lead roof and finial.
EXTERIOR: first floor band and sillband, coped gables of
various forms. 2 storeys plus basement; 6 window range. Double
depth plan.
Main block has to right a cross-wing with stepped gable and
finial. Large round-arched 4-light glazing bar window with
keystone. Below, 3 glazing bar windows. To left, a 5 window
range with the bays divided by buttresses, the central pair
rising to the eaves and topped with gables and niches. Larger
segment-headed central window flanked by 2 smaller windows.
Above, 3 through-eaves dormers with coped gables and tall
round-headed windows with transoms. On either side, single
smaller windows. All these windows have glazing bars. Basement
has 5 segment-headed arches. Left return has a hipped roof
behind a flat topped gable. Elliptical arched 4-light window
with voussoirs and hoodmould, and below, 3 glazing bar
windows. Basement has a segmental arch.
Beyond, to right, a set back entrance bay, 3 storeys, with a
cross eaves dormer and below, a late C20 flat-roofed porch. To
right, a single window on each floor. Hipped right return has
mainly reglazed fenestration, with 4 first floor windows.
Above, a through-eaves dormer with single plain sash and
stepped gable with finial, flanked by single windows. Below,
to right, a hexagonal single storey projection with swept
coped parapet and 3 windows. To its left, 3 windows. Right
return has an elliptical arched doorway with glazing bar
fanlight, panelled double door, and transom inscribed
"Infants". Above, a through-eaves dormer. To left, a single
window on each floor.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at the rear, a stone boundary wall approx
3m high, with triangular stone coping. Adjoining open shelter
has hipped slate roof and cast-iron posts.
WJ Hale, 1862-1929, was a pupil of Innocent & Brown,
architects of Sheffield's earliest board schools. He had his
own practice in Sheffield from 1893, and designed a number of
noteworthy schools and Nonconformist churches.
(Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council; Who's Who in
Architecture, 1914).
Listing NGR: SK3284488610
