Darnall School (Now Playgroup) Rear Range
DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW PLAYGROUP) REAR RANGE, DARNALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270939
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Darnall School (Now Playgroup) Rear Range
- Statutory Address:
- DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW PLAYGROUP) REAR RANGE, DARNALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270939
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Darnall School (Now Playgroup) Rear Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW PLAYGROUP) REAR RANGE, DARNALL 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:
- DARNALL SCHOOL (NOW PLAYGROUP) REAR RANGE, 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 38794 88254
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE DARNALL ROAD 784-1/6/239 (South West side) Darnall School (now playgroup) rear range
GV II
School, now playgroup premises. 1892, with late C20 alterations. By CJ Innocent. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, topped with an octagonal wooden bell turret with swept octagonal spire and finial. Single lozenge-shaped ridge stack. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: sillband and coped main gables with kneelers. Single storey plus basement; 8 window range. In the centre, 2 large through-eaves dormers, each with a cross casement with shouldered lights, set in a pointed arched recess. Between the windows, a buttress, and above it, an unglazed lancet. To right, a single window, then a smaller through-eaves dormer with a shouldered single light. Beyond, a gabled cross-wing with a graduated 4-light window with shouldered lights, set in a pointed arched recess with 3 breathers in the peak. Beyond again, a lower hipped section with a 2-light flush mullioned window, and a door below it. Set back lower entrance block, to left, has a through-eaves dormer with a shouldered single light, flanked to left by a single window. Left gable has a 3-light pointed arched window and below, a 2-light window and a door, both segment-headed. Main block rear elevation has similar fenestration to the front. Basement has 4 Tudor arched openings, all blocked, the right one with a narrow door inserted. To left, gabled cross-wing with a graduated 3-light window with pointed central light flanked by shouldered lights. Below, 2 Tudor arched glazing bar windows. To left again, hipped section with two 2-light flush mullioned windows and below, a larger flush mullioned window. To its right, a door with elliptical arched tympanum and mullioned overlight, flanked to right by a small single window. INTERIOR not inspected. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3879488254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456801
- 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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