Caretakers House and Adjoining Boundary Wall at Former Board School is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. Caretaker's house.

Caretakers House and Adjoining Boundary Wall at Former Board School

WRENN ID
standing-stone-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield South East MP: Mr Clive Betts (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1995
Type
Caretaker's house
OS grid reference
SK 387 891
Coordinates
53.39742, -1.41883
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The caretaker's house and adjoining boundary wall at the former board school, built in 1903, features late 20th-century alterations. Designed by Holmes & Watson for the Sheffield Education Committee, the building is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof with a ridge stack. It includes a plinth, string courses, and coped gables. The house is two stories tall with a three-window range. To the left, there is a projecting gable with a catslide roof, featuring a small single light and a larger window with a detached pediment linked to the string course above. In the peak of the gable, there is a triple breather. Below, to the right, is a recessed half-glazed panelled door with a moulded cornice and cartouche, also linked with the string course. To the right of the door, there is a set-back bay with a canted stone bay window that has a cornice and a two-light window with a stone mullion, flanked by narrow round-arched lights. The right return gable has a two-light window on a sill band. The interior has not been inspected. Outside, there is a short length of spiked railing on a chamfered plinth, linked to the boundary wall. The stone boundary wall, approximately 100 meters long, has triangular coping and an off-centre pair of gate piers.

Local climate

Caretakers House and Adjoining Boundary Wall at Former Board School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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