Caretakers House Walkley Board School Wall and Railing
CARETAKERS HOUSE, 189, BURNABY WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271105
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Caretakers House Walkley Board School Wall and Railing
- Statutory Address:
- CARETAKERS HOUSE, 189, BURNABY WALK
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/05943/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271105
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Caretakers House Walkley Board School Wall and Railing
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARETAKERS HOUSE, 189, BURNABY WALK
- Statutory Address 2:
- WALKLEY BOARD SCHOOL, BURNABY WALK
- Statutory Address 3:
- WALL AND RAILING, BURNABY WALK
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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:
- CARETAKERS HOUSE, 189, BURNABY WALK
- Statutory Address:
- WALKLEY BOARD SCHOOL, BURNABY WALK
- Statutory Address:
- WALL AND RAILING, BURNABY WALK
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 33575 88924
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW BURNABY WALK 784-1/5/123 (East side) 03/06/92 Walkley Board School, caretaker's house (No.189), wall and railing
II
Board school and attached caretaker's house, boundary wall and railing. Dated 1874, with caretaker's house 1877. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Addition 1907 by HL Patterson. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with coped gables and decorative ridge tiles. Gothic Revival style. 3 stone ridge stacks with multiple flues linked by ventilators with louvred openings. Plinth and sillbands. H-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 6 window range. Ground floor windows boarded at time of survey. Shouldered front gable has corner buttresses. Central cusped pointed arched niche with datestone and inscribed band below. Above it, a shallow buttress rising into a stepped bracket carrying a diagonally set bell turret with pyramidal spire and finial. 4 pointed arched openings. Flanking the buttress, 2 segment-arched stepped windows with transoms and cusped heads. Above them, a string course forming pointed arches, each with 4 slit ventilators. Ground floor has 2 flat-headed windows and a doorway to right. On either side, set back wings, the left hipped, the right gabled. Left wing has a single window, and below, in the return angle, an angled infill with 2 larger shouldered windows. Right wing has single large window. Right return has gable to left, with a triple window with larger round-arched central light. Below, a single storey projection with flat roof and 2 segment-headed windows. Central block has a stone mullioned cross casement flanked by single gabled through-eaves dormers, each with a stone mullioned cross casement with round-arched lights. Above them, slit ventilators. Below, 2 windows to left, a 3 large segment-headed triple windows to right. In the left return angle, an angled doorway. Rear cross-wing has 12 unequally spaced shouldered windows. Below, 6 large segment-headed arches. Returns have 2 shouldered windows above, and a single arch below. Caretaker's house, to left of main gable, 3 storeys plus attics; 2 window range. On the first floor, a small window to left, and a larger window to right. Above, a 2-light casement. Below, 2 windows, the right one larger. Left return has a large hipped projection with a box dormer. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, low boundary wall with triangular stepped coping and wrought-iron railing and gate. To right, a double wrought-iron gate. Round cornered wall in front of the main gable has chamfered ashlar stepped coping and wrought-iron railing. Boundary wall with triangular coping and round corners encloses the polygonal site. 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. Building vacant at time of survey. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3357588924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456099
- 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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