Carbrook School Workshops

A board school, later workshops, was built in 1874 by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board. It is one of the earliest schools in England constructed following the 1870 Education Act. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, and has gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles and finials. A ridge stack features two lozenge-shaped flues, and two gable stacks are also present. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the symmetrical front features three gables with shouldered central gable flanked by gabled buttresses. The front has two pointed arched recesses with hoodmoulds, containing graduated triple lancets with transoms. Above, a cusped niche is topped with a crocketed gable, flanked by crocketed buttresses and small louvred openings, with a dated panel below. An octagonal turret with a conical spire and finial rises above. Below the turret are two tall segment-headed windows with transoms, flanked by buttresses, and then three small casements. The side bays have similar recesses with two transomed lancets each. In the right bay, below, is a door, and in the left bay are two similar windows. The returns have four shouldered casements on the first floor, with further windows below. A buttressed pier at the rear corner is flanked by cusped arched openings covering a double doorway with overlight. The central block has paired casements and gabled through-eaves dormers, each with tall shouldered windows with transoms. An altered door replaces one window to the east; to the east are eight segment-headed transomed windows, and to the west, ten similar windows, with one altered to a door. The crosswise hipped rear wing has fourteen shouldered windows, with six segment-headed recesses, buttressed between the central and outer pairs. Five round-headed windows with glazing bars are present on the rear, the central one altered, alongside a double board door. The interior remains uninspected.