Woodlands Middle School

SE 50 NW 11/34

ADWICK-LE-STREET THE PARK (north end, off), Woodlands Woodlands Middle School

GV II

School. c1910. For the Brodsworth Colliery Company. Red brick with ashlar limestone dressings, red tile roofs. Single storey of various heights; symmetrical front with 3 gabled classrooms flanked by entrances into cloakroom side-wings, set to rear a taller rectangular assembly hall with gabled dormers; additional ranges to sides and rear; in Arts and Crafts style; 2-storey, 2 : 3 :2-bay wing of c1930 to far left (not of special interest). Entrances have matching ashlar porticos each with buttresses flanking square-headed double doors recessed beneath hollow-moulded segmental arch with string course and parapet over. Cloakroom wings to either side have 2-and 3-light casements, conical ridge ventilators and shaped ashlar end gable copings. Classrooms, set back to centre, each have tall, square-headed 4-light windows divided by brick piers and central stone mullions; each gable with lozenge motifs and shaped ashlar copings; ridge ventilators. Assembly hall rises to rear and has 2-light clerestorey windows in 3 dormer with lozenge ornament in coped gables; centre of ridge crowned by a large octagonal ventilator with balustraded sides and cornice to leaded ogee dome. Gabled returns of assembly hall lit by large semicircular windows with ashlar and brick voussoirs, projecting keystones and hoodmoulds. 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: SE5332707579