Woodlands First School
WOODLANDS FIRST SCHOOL, CHADWICK ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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
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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