Earl Marshal Training Centre and attached boundary walls
Earl Marshal Training Centre, Earl Marshal Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247527
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Earl Marshal Training Centre and attached boundary walls
- Statutory Address:
- Earl Marshal Training Centre, Earl Marshal Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247527
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Earl Marshal Training Centre and attached boundary walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- Earl Marshal Training Centre, Earl Marshal 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:
- Earl Marshal Training Centre, Earl Marshal 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 37366 90020
Details
784-1/2/262
SHEFFIELD
EARL MARSHAL ROAD (south west side)
Earl Marshal Training Centre and attached boundary walls
GV
II
Formerly known as: Grimesthorpe School EARL MARSHAL ROAD.
School, now training centre, with attached boundary walls. 1874-75, with mid and late C20 alterations. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. Three ridge stacks with pairs of square flues linked by louvred openings, plus shouldered side wall stack. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses and sillbands, coped gables. Two storeys plus basement; 15 x 5 windows. T-plan. Double gabled central wing has flanking buttresses. Four shouldered windows and above, two pointed arched recesses with hoodmoulds, containing double lancets. Retaining wall, to basement, has recess with shouldered doorway under relieving arch. Returns have an off-centre canted wing with hipped roof and irregular fenestration.
To the rear of the wings, two windows on each floor, the upper ones shouldered. To the front of the wings, a single shouldered window on each floor. On either side, the main range has two shouldered windows on each floor, and beyond, a projecting hipped end bay. Right end bay has three shouldered windows and below, a large blocked pointed arched opening with inserted door. Left bay has two windows, and a similar opening below. Left return has five shouldered windows and below, a shouldered panel with datestone. Ground floor has two large blocked pointed arched openings. To right, an angle buttress topped with an octagonal single bellcote and octagonal spire. Right return has similar fenestration.
Rear elevation has central double gable with six windows, flanked by ranges of four windows. Beyond, hipped wings with two windows to right and three windows to left, and below, a pointed arched opening with double garage doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: enclosing boundary wall has rock-faced gabled coping, stepped and ramped. Earl Marshal Road side has buttresses, and to right, two gateways and a renewed railing. Grimesthorpe Road side has two gateways. Rear range, approximately 4 metres high, is a retaining wall.
This school 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.
(RIBA LIBRARY; Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3736690020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457055
- 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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