Woodlands First School

Woodlands First School is a school building constructed around 1910, with later additions, for the Brodsworth Colliery Company. It is made of red brick with ashlar limestone dressings and features a red tile roof. The building has a rectangular, two-storey assembly hall flanked by twin one-storey classroom wings on three sides. The main entrance is located between twin cloakroom wings on the north side, with toilet blocks set back in the corners. The design is in the Arts and Crafts style.

The entrance features an ashlar portico with buttresses on either side of square-headed double doors, which are set in a splayed recess beneath a hollow-moulded segmental arch. Above this is a string course and a coped parapet. The flanking wings are lit by two-light casement windows with projecting sills and plain heads, positioned beneath gables that have lozenge motifs and shaped ashlar copings. The toilet blocks have three windows, a string course, and segmental-headed ashlar parapets set between brick piers.

Each classroom wing has one- and two-light windows, coped end gables, and hipped roofs where they meet the central block. There are conical ridge ventilators on the roofs. The central assembly hall is illuminated by a pair of linked dormers, each featuring a cross window beneath gables similar to those on the rest of the building. From the roof slope on each side, offset brick stacks rise, topped with oversailing bands. A large octagonal central ridge ventilator with balustraded sides and a cornice supports a leaded ogee dome.

The returns of the building show classroom gables with four-light windows, while the central block has square-headed windows and timbered upper gables beneath plain bargeboards. This school is an important element of the Woodlands colliery village, which was designed and laid out by Percy Houfton starting in 1907.