Darnall School (Now Community Association) Front Range and Attached Boundary Wall
DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION) FRONT RANGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, DARNALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247368
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Darnall School (Now Community Association) Front Range and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION) FRONT RANGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, DARNALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247368
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Darnall School (Now Community Association) Front Range and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION) FRONT RANGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, DARNALL ROAD
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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:
- DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION) FRONT RANGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, DARNALL 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 38806 88314
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE DARNALL ROAD 784-1/6/237 (South West side) Darnall School (now Community Association) front range & attached boundary wall
GV II
Board school, now district community association premises, with boundary wall and railing. Dated 1874. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Mid and late C20 alterations. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles. Various lozenge shaped ridge stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, sillband, moulded eaves, coped gables. Single storey plus basement; 8 window range. L-plan. Recessed centre with 3 through-eaves dormers with coped gables, each with a shouldered single light casement. Between them, two 2-light shouldered casements. To right, a half-hipped projecting wing with a pointed arched doorway to left, with hoodmould and shouldered fanlight. To its right, a shouldered 2-light window, and a basement opening below it. At the corner, a projecting buttress with a pointed arched inscribed panel, topped with a round bellcote with cusped lancet opening and octagonal spire with finial. To right again, set back gable to cross-wing, with a tall central lancet with transom and hoodmould, flanked by larger pointed arched recesses with shouldered double lancets, with transoms and linked hoodmoulds. Gable has finial and 5 slit ventilators. To left, 2 gables linked by a parapet with lancet opening. Smaller right gable has a graduated 3-light pointed arched window with transoms. Larger left gable has a shouldered 2-light pointed arched window, flanked by shouldered single lancets, all with transoms. To left again, a set back range with a large through eaves dormer to right, with single lancet. Right return has to left a rounded projection with inscribed band and conical roof with finial. 6 shouldered windows. To right, four 2-light shouldered windows. Left return has a gable with pointed arched recess containing a graduated 4-light pointed arched window. To its left, a dormer with a single window. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, to right, a stone boundary wall with stepped ashlar coping and 3 sections of cast-iron railing and a pair of cast-iron gates. To left, a similar wall topped with cast-iron railing, and a pair of square gate piers with flat caps and cast-iron gates. This building is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest in England to be built after the 1870 Education Act. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council; Innocent & Brown: Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools (etc): Sheffield: 1873-: RIBA LIBRARY).
Listing NGR: SK3880688314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Innocent, , Brown, , Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools, (1874)
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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