Manor Lodge School, Adjoining Caretakers House and Boundary Wall
MANOR LODGE SCHOOL, ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270977
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Lodge School, Adjoining Caretakers House and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR LODGE SCHOOL, ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL, CITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270977
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Lodge School, Adjoining Caretakers House and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR LODGE SCHOOL, ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL, CITY 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:
- MANOR LODGE SCHOOL, ADJOINING CARETAKERS HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL, CITY 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:
- SK3707286349
Details
SK38NE
784-1/6/184
SHEFFIELD
CITY ROAD
(North East side)
Manor Lodge School, adjoining caretaker's house and boundary wall
GV
II
School, caretaker's house and boundary wall. Dated 1876. By
Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Gothic
Revival style. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and
slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles. 2 triple side wall
stacks with lozenge-shaped flues with louvred ventilator
openings between them. School buildings have gablet
ventilators and square open wooden bell turret with conical
spire and finial. Plinth, eaves band, coped gables. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey plus basement; 13 window range. Main
gable, to left, has a pointed arched recess with hoodmould and
sillband, containing a pair of tall lancets with double
transoms. Above and between them, a lozenge shaped datestone.
On either side, a shouldered casement.
Left return has three 2-light shouldered windows with stone
mullions, and various basement openings.
To right, main range has central gabled wing with a tall
single lancet flanked by buttresses, and beyond by single
shouldered windows. On either side, a single window, then two
2-light windows, with shouldered heads and stone mullions.
To right, caretaker's house, with, to left, a gabled wing with
a 2-light shouldered window, and above it, 2 slit ventilators.
Below, a canted hipped stone bay window with 3 shouldered
plain sashes. To right, a board door with overlight. To right
again, a coped yard wall with a board door. Right gable has to
right a chamfered external corner stack on a bracket. On the
first floor, 2 single lancets with moulded heads, and below, a
similar smaller window.
Similar rear elevation has central gable flanked by larger
hipped wings.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, adjoining boundary wall with
intermediate piers, chamfered ashlar coping and caps. To
right, a corner gate and a section of cast-iron railing.
Approx 100m long.
HISTORICAL NOTE: 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. The design published in 1874 shows the
caretaker's house at the other end of the main range.
(Innocent & Brown: Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools
(etc): Sheffield: 1873-; Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City
Council).
Listing NGR: SK3707286349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456585
- 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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