Lowfield Junior and Infant School (facing Queens Road) is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. A Victorian Junior and infant school.
Lowfield Junior and Infant School (facing Queens Road)
- WRENN ID
- eastward-cloister-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1995
- Type
- Junior and infant school
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Lowfield Junior and Infant School (facing Queens Road), Lowfield Primary School, London Road, S2 4NJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 352 854
- Coordinates
- 53.36443, -1.47172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowfield Junior and Infant School, facing Queens Road, is a junior and infant school built in 1877, with additions in 1878 and 20th-century alterations. It was designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board. The building features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has gabled and hipped slate roofs, including two ridge stacks with double lozenge-shaped flues linked by ventilators, all in the Gothic Revival style.
The school has a plinth, coped gables, and gabled roof ventilators. It is a single-storey structure with a seventeen-window range. The off-centre main gable has a pointed arched recess that contains a graduated triple lancet. To the left, there is a range with four shouldered windows. To the right, a range features three gabled through-eaves dormers with shouldered single lights, along with two two-light shouldered windows with mullions. Further to the right, there is a hipped wing in an L-plan, which has seven lancets with an impost band. In the return angle to the left, there is a pointed arched doorway.
The interior has not been inspected. This school is one of several designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board and is among the earliest built following the 1870 Education Act.
Local climate
Lowfield Junior and Infant School (facing Queens Road) receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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