Woodlands Middle School

Woodlands Middle School is a school building constructed around 1910 for the Brodsworth Colliery Company. It features red brick with ashlar limestone dressings and red tile roofs. The school is a single storey with various heights and has a symmetrical front with three gabled classrooms. These classrooms are flanked by entrances leading into cloakroom side-wings, with a taller rectangular assembly hall set at the rear, which has gabled dormers. The building is designed in the Arts and Crafts style and includes additional ranges to the sides and rear.

To the far left, there is a two-storey, two: three: two-bay wing built around 1930, which is not of special interest. The entrances are adorned with matching ashlar porticos, each featuring buttresses flanking square-headed double doors that are recessed beneath hollow-moulded segmental arches, complete with a string course and parapet above. The cloakroom wings on either side have two- and three-light casement windows, conical ridge ventilators, and shaped ashlar end gable copings.

The classrooms, which are set back to the center, each have tall, square-headed four-light windows divided by brick piers and central stone mullions. Each gable features lozenge motifs and shaped ashlar copings, along with ridge ventilators. The assembly hall at the rear rises higher and includes two-light clerestorey windows in three dormers, which also have lozenge ornamentation in their coped gables. The center of the ridge is topped with a large octagonal ventilator that has balustraded sides and a cornice leading to a leaded ogee dome. The gabled returns of the assembly hall are illuminated by large semicircular windows with ashlar and brick voussoirs, projecting keystones, and hoodmoulds. This school is an important part of the Woodlands colliery village, which was designed and laid out by Percy Houfton starting in 1907.