Westbourne School

Westbourne School, 60, Westbourne Road, Broomhill, Sheffield, S10 2QT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247503
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: Westbourne School
Statutory Address:: Westbourne School, 60, Westbourne Road, Broomhill, Sheffield, S10 2QT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247503
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: Westbourne School
Statutory Address 1:: Westbourne School, 60, Westbourne Road, Broomhill, Sheffield, S10 2QT

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:: Westbourne School, 60, Westbourne Road, Broomhill, Sheffield, S10 2QT

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 33219 86542

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 January 2023 to update name and address, amend description due to a change of building use and reformat the text to current standards

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SHEFFIELD WESTBOURNE ROAD (west side) No.60 Westbourne School

(formerly listed as No.60 Ashgrove, Radio Sheffield) 28/06/73

II House, radio station (at time of survey) now a schhool. Dated 1871, with late C20 alterations. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs with three gable and single valley stacks, mostly with multiple coped flues. Gothic Revival style.

EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, coped gables. Two storeys plus attics; five window range. Double gabled entrance front has a recessed central single light window with a traceried balustrade above it, and a balustraded balcony below. Left gable has a corbelled external stack. Right gable has a three-light stone mullioned casement and above it, a single light window. Central moulded segmental pointed doorway with double door and overlight. To right, a four-light mullioned window. To right again, set back gabled rear wing fronted by a canted single storey projection with parapet and hipped roof.

South-west front has a central three-light mullioned window and above it, a single light window. On either side, a gable with a two storey canted bay window with traceried balustrade and three lights on each floor. To right, a taller canted bay window with traceried balustrade and three two-light mullioned windows on each floor. To left, a projecting square crenellated tower, three stages, with corbel table and gargoyles. Canted oriel window with traceried balustrade and above it, a lancet opening with a datestone in the tympanum and a two-light mullioned window. Below, two two-light mullioned windows.

INTERIOR has a dogleg cantilever wooden stair with ornate cast-iron balustrade and ramped scrolled handrail. Ground floor rooms have moulded cornices. Right hand room has strapwork ceiling.

Listing NGR: SK3321986542

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Legacy System number:: 457006
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.