Youth Centre, Former Board School

This building is a former Board School, now a youth centre, dating from 1903. It was designed by Holmes & Watson for the Sheffield School Board and is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and graduated slate roofs. The architectural style is Renaissance Revival.

The building has coped gables of varying forms and features a single and two-storey design with a nine-by-nine window arrangement. Most windows are plain casements. A high central hall is flanked by single-storey ranges on all sides. The hall has ramped, shouldered gables with side pilasters, ball finials, and a central pedestal topped with an urn finial. Round-arched windows with voussoirs and a keystone are set within each gable. The roof includes two octagonal wooden bell turrets with swept lead roofs and finials, and a single coped side wall stack.

The front facing Tinsley Park Road has a central through-eaves dormer with a segmental pediment, flanked by single windows. Beyond this are single swept coped gables with segmental pediments, each featuring triple windows with label moulds. A gabled porch with a segment-headed recessed door is located to the left, flanked by small windows. A set-back hipped projection sits in the return angle. To the right is a projecting cross-wing with a segmental pediment and a three-light mullioned window. Below and to the left of the cross-wing is a corner porch with a catslide roof and a segment-headed doorway, alongside a single small window. The right return has a centrally placed, concave-sided gable flanked by smaller convex-sided gables with segmental pediments, and three triple windows with label moulds. A small through-eaves dormer is also present. The rear gable features two small windows framing a projecting gable stack, with a three-light mullioned window to the left and a single window to the right. The left return has two swept coped gables, one projecting, both with triple windows and label moulds. A recessed hipped corner with a three-light mullioned window is to the right.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process. E Holmes, in partnership with AF Holmes (1893-1906), designed several Board Schools in Sheffield, and this is considered a particularly ornate example.