Carter Knowle Junior School
CARTER KNOWLE JUNIOR SCHOOL, CARTER KNOWLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247043
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Carter Knowle Junior School
- Statutory Address:
- CARTER KNOWLE JUNIOR SCHOOL, CARTER KNOWLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247043
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Carter Knowle Junior School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARTER KNOWLE JUNIOR SCHOOL, CARTER KNOWLE ROAD
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:
- CARTER KNOWLE JUNIOR SCHOOL, CARTER KNOWLE 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 33952 84092
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38SW CARTER KNOWLE ROAD 784-1/9/140 (South East side) Carter Knowle Junior School
GV II
Board school. 1906. By Holmes & Watson. For the Sheffield Education Committee. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with various stacks. Arts and Crafts style. EXTERIOR: plinth and shouldered coped gables. Windows are mainly transomed glazing bar casements. Central hall, flanked on all sides by single storey ranges, has a central octagonal wooden bell turret with shallow lead dome and finial, and at each corner, an octagonal stone turret topped with an octagonal louvred ventilator with shallow lead roof and finial. East gable, to Bannerdale Road, has stone mullioned 4-light cross casement and above, a shouldered gabled single bell turret with volutes and finial. On either side, 2 segment-arched leaded dormers with transomed glazing bar windows. East front has central gabled through-eaves dormer flanked by single windows. Beyond, single gables with shouldered segmental pediments and 3-light windows with label moulds. Basement has 6 segment-headed 3-light windows with buttresses between them. Beyond again, in each return angle, a set back hipped block with 4 small windows. Left block has 2-light casement and door. North front, to Carter Knowle Road, has central gable with segmental pediment and 3-light window. On either side, a through-eaves dormer with swept coped gable, flanked by single light windows. Beyond, to left, a small wing with segment-headed gable and 2-light mullioned window. To right, a larger wing topped with a pedestal with gabled pediment, with a 3-light mullioned window. Below and to left, a shallow square bay window with lead roof and 2-light cross casement. Rear elevation, to Fossdale Road, is of similar design. INTERIOR not inspected. E Holmes, in partnership with AF Watson 1893-1906, designed several schools for the Sheffield School Board, of which this is a complete example. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3395284092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456188
- 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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