Lowfield Junior and Infant School (facing Queens Road)

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SK38NE 784-1/6/485

SHEFFIELD LONDON ROAD (east side) Lowfield Primary School Rear range to Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools (facing Queens Road)

(Formerly listed a Rear range to Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools, LONDON ROAD) GV II Junior and infant school. 1877, with additions 1878, and C20 alterations. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with two ridge stacks with double lozenge-shaped flues linked by ventilators. Gothic Revival style.

Plinth, coped gables, gabled roof ventilators. Single storey; seventeen window range. Off-centre main gable has a pointed arched recess containing a graduated triple lancet. To left, a range with four shouldered windows. To right, a range with three gabled through-eaves dormers with shouldered single lights, and two two-light shouldered windows with mullions. To right again, a hipped wing, L-plan, with seven lancets with impost band. In the return angle, to left, a pointed arched doorway.

INTERIOR not inspected.

This school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest to be built after the 1870 Education Act. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3525285412