Woodlands First School

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