Sandal First School

SANDAL FIRST SCHOOL, CLIFFE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389485
Date first listed:
01-Nov-2001
List Entry Name:
Sandal First School
Statutory Address:
SANDAL FIRST SCHOOL, CLIFFE AVENUE
A large two storey Victorian building in limestone with high crenellated windows in the middle of the upper storey.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389485
Date first listed:
01-Nov-2001
List Entry Name:
Sandal First School
Statutory Address 1:
SANDAL FIRST SCHOOL, CLIFFE AVENUE
Statutory Address 2:
SANDAL FIRST SCHOOL, GREEN ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SANDAL FIRST SCHOOL, CLIFFE AVENUE
Statutory Address:
SANDAL FIRST SCHOOL, GREEN ROAD

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

District:
Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Baildon
National Grid Reference:
SE 15253 39178

Details

1/0/10089 GREEN ROAD
01-NOV-01 Sandal First School
CLIFFE AVENUE
Sandal First School

II

Board school, 1893-94. Minor C20 alterations. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs and shouldered and coped rear and side wall stacks. Perpendicular Gothic style. Sill bands, coped gables with ball finials. 2 storeys: 1:4:1 bays. Rectangular central range, with recessed side wings and paired rear wings. Windows have stone mullions and tranoms. Major windows have 4-centred arches and tracery.
Central block has 4 cross-mullioned windows flanked by single lights. Above, 2 large through-eaves dormers with 3-light windows, flanked by single lights. Return gables have single cross mullioned windows flanked by single lights, that to the left gable converted to a door. Above, a 3-light pointed arched window and flanking single light.
Left side wing has a 3-light flat headed window. Right wing has a doorway with pointed arched overlight. Above, each has two 2-light pointed arched windows. Left return has 2 large openings to left, with late C20 glazing, and to right, a cross mullioned window with an inserted door. Right return has a cross mullioned window falnked to left by a single light, and to right by an opening with C20 glazing. Above, each return has a central through-eaves dormer with a tall transomed light, flanked by single lights. These windows are partly reglazed. Wings? rear gables have 3 large flat headed openings, and above, a 2-light window.
Paired rear wings have 4 large flat headed openings with C20 glazing, and above, large 3-light pointed arched windows with sidelights. On each side, a flat roofed square porch with door and overlight, approached by a ramp with C19 railings.

INTERIOR: Ground floor rooms have late C20 ceilings and matchboard dadoes. Entrance hall has plain open well stair, and cross-baeam on cast iron column with elaborate scroll brackets. First floor hall has matchboard dado and arch-braced roof on corbels, with glazed screens and half-glazed doors to adjoining classrooms. Classrooms have similar roofs and detailing, one with roof partly exposed.

OUTSIDE: Rockfaced stone boundary wall encloses rectangular site. Gabled and flat coping on each side, chamfered ashlar coping to front and rear, with renewed railing. 2 original gates at rear, one pair to front, with cross-gabled square gatepiers.




Listing NGR: SE1525539182

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
488167
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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