Kettlebridge Nursery First School

Kettlebridge Nursery First School is a board school, later adapted as a nursery first school, built in 1904. It was designed by WJ Hale for the Sheffield School Board and contains mid-20th century additions. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has gabled and hipped slate roofs. It is an example of the Arts and Crafts style.

The exterior features coped gables. The heads of the buttresses and the central gable have wreathed cartouches with inspirational inscriptions. The building is two or three stories high and has seven bays by three windows. It is arranged around a central hall with a clerestory, flanked by towers, and enclosed on all sides by lower gabled ranges. The street frontage has three projecting gables in the centre; the central gable contains a segment-headed two-light casement with an elongated keystone, flanked by single flat-headed windows. The outer gables have large segment-headed four-light windows with elongated keystones, and are flanked by square buttresses with corniced flat caps. An entrance wing is set back on either side, with a gable stack. The entrance wing has two segment-headed windows with raised surrounds and keystones, and below it, a small round-arched window flanked by two smaller casements. A hipped roof with finials and a continuous clerestory of windows tops the central hall. Each end of the hall features a rectangular tower, two stories high, with a single narrow opening on the longer sides. Above the cornice are louvred bell openings with deep flat ledges; it has four square pinnacles topped with square domes and a swept lead roof with tall finials. The right tower has a taller external coped stack at the rear. The right return includes an entrance block with three buttresses, above which are gabled dormers with segment-headed casements and elongated keystones; below is a projecting entrance with a bow-fronted cornice and keystone, a plain opening, and a recessed door. To the right is a set-back gable with a segment-headed central window with a keystone, flanked by smaller lights. The left return mirrors this design. A mid-20th century wooden canopy links the doorway with a detached addition. The rear elevation features two buttressed gables with segment-headed four-light windows, flanked by flat-headed tripartite windows with stone mullions. Buttressed end gables have a segment-headed window. The interior was not inspected.

WJ Hale (1862-1929) designed several notable schools and Nonconformist churches in Sheffield between 1893 and 1929. This building is considered among his best and has seen relatively few alterations.