Carbrook School Workshops

CARBROOK SCHOOL WORKSHOPS, ATTERCLIFFE COMMON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271340
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
Carbrook School Workshops
Statutory Address:
CARBROOK SCHOOL WORKSHOPS, ATTERCLIFFE COMMON
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271340
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1994
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
Carbrook School Workshops
Statutory Address 1:
CARBROOK SCHOOL WORKSHOPS, ATTERCLIFFE COMMON

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CARBROOK SCHOOL WORKSHOPS, ATTERCLIFFE COMMON

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 38571 89577

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE ATTERCLIFFE COMMON 784-1/6/38 (South East side) 24/11/94 Carbrook School Workshops (Formerly Listed as: ATTERCLIFFE COMMON Former Carbrook School)

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Board school, now workshops. Dated 1874. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles and finials. Ridge stack with 2 lozenge-shaped flues, and 2 gable stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, coped gables. 2 storeys; 4 window range. Triple gabled symmetrical front has shouldered central gable flanked by gabled buttresses. 2 pointed arched recesses with hoodmoulds, containing graduated triple lancets with transoms. Above, a cusped niche with crocketed gable flanked by crocketed buttresses and small louvred openings. Below it, a dated panel. Above, an octagonal turret with conical spire and finial. Below, 2 tall segment-headed windows with transoms, flanked by buttresses. Beyond, on either side, 3 small casements. Side bays have similar recesses each containing 2 transomed lancets. Below, in the right bay, 3 segment-headed transomed windows. In the left bay, 2 similar windows, then a door to left. Returns have 4 shouldered casements on the first floor. Below, at the rear corner, a buttressed pier flanked by cusped arched openings covering a double doorway with overlight. Central block, 9 windows, has on each side 2 casements flanked by gabled through-eaves dormers, each with 2 tall shouldered windows with transoms. Beyond, 2 windows, one of them, to east, altered to a door. Below, to east, 8 segment-headed transomed windows. To west, 10 similar windows, one altered to a door. Crosswise hipped rear wing has 14 shouldered windows, and below, 6 segment-headed recesses with buttresses between the central and outer pairs. 5 round-headed glazing bar windows, the central one altered, and to right, a double board door. INTERIOR not inspected. 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. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council; Innocent & Brown: Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools (etc): Sheffield: 1873-).

Listing NGR: SK3857189577

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Legacy System number:
455236
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Innocent, , Brown, , Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools, (1874)

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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.

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