Manor Lodge School, Adjoining Caretakers House And Boundary Wall

The Manor Lodge School, caretaker's house, and boundary wall were built in 1876 by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board. The buildings are an example of Gothic Revival style, constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs covered with decorative ridge tiles. The school buildings feature gablet ventilators and a square open wooden bell turret with a conical spire and finial. Two triple side wall stacks have lozenge-shaped flues with louvred ventilator openings. The buildings are laid out in an L-plan.

The main school building is single-story with a basement and has a 13-window range. The main gable on the left features a pointed arched recess with a hoodmould and sillband, containing a pair of tall lancet windows with double transoms. Above and between the lancets is a datestone. To either side of the lancets are shoulder casements. The left-hand return elevation has three two-light windows with stone mullions, as well as various basement openings.

The right-hand range has a central gabled wing with a tall single lancet, flanked by buttresses and then single shouldered windows. To either side are single windows, followed by two two-light windows with shouldered heads and stone mullions. The caretaker's house is located to the right, featuring a gabled wing with a two-light shoulder window. Above this is a pair of slit ventilators. Below, there is a canted hipped stone bay window with three shouldered plain sashes. To the right of the bay window is a board door with an overlight, and beyond that, a coped yard wall with a board door. The right gable has a chamfered external corner stack on a bracket. The first floor has two single lancets with moulded heads, with a similar smaller window below.

The rear elevation has a central gable flanked by larger hipped wings. The interior has not been inspected.

A substantial boundary wall, approximately 100 meters long, runs alongside the property and features intermediate piers with chamfered ashlar coping and caps. A corner gate and a section of cast-iron railing are also present.

This school is one of several designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is among the earliest built in England after the 1870 Education Act. The school’s original design, published in 1874, showed the caretaker's house at the opposite end of the main range. The buildings include stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.