WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL

WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL, CHADWICK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314835
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL, CHADWICK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314835
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL, CHADWICK ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL, CHADWICK ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE5334607628

Details

SE 50 NW 11/8

ADWICK-LE-STREET CHADWICK ROAD (south side), Woodlands Woodlands First School

GV II

School. c1910 with later additions. For the Brodsworth Colliery Company. Red brick with ashlar limestone dressings, red tile roof. Rectangular, 2-storey assembly hall with twin 1-storey classroom wings on 3 sides; main entrance between twin cloakroom wings on north side with flanking toilet blocks set back in corners; in Arts and Crafts style; later additions to right return and 3 corners are not of special interest. Entrance has ashlar portico with buttresses flanking square-headed double doors in splayed recess beneath hollow-moulded segmental arch with string course and coped parapet over; flanking wings lit by 2-light casements with projecting sills and plain heads beneath gables with lozenge motifs and shaped ashlar copings; toilet blocks with 3 windows, string course and segmental-headed ashlar parapets set between brick piers. Classroom wing to each side have 1- and 2-light windows, coped end gables and hipped roofs at junction with central block; conical ridge ventilators. Central assembly hall range lit by a pair of linked dormers each with cross window beneath gables as rest; from roof slope to each side rise offset brick stacks with oversailing bands at top; large octagonal central ridge ventilator with balustraded sides and cornice to leaded ogee dome. Returns: classroom gables have 4-light windows, otherwise as front; central block with square-headed windows and timbered upper gables beneath plain bargeboards. Important element of the Woodlands colliery village designed and laid out by Percy Houfton from 1907 (see under Church of All Saints, Central Avenue).

Listing NGR: SE5334607628

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Legacy System number:: 334872
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Davey, P, Arts and Crafts Architecture, (1980), 94
'Town Planning Review' in October, , Vol. 50, (1979), 437-458

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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.