Youth Centre, Former Board School

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE TINSLEY PARK ROAD 784-1/6/713 (South East side) Youth Centre, former Board School

GV II

Board school, now youth centre. 1903. By Holmes & Watson for the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and graduated slate roofs. Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: coped gables of various forms. Single and 2 storeys; 9 x 9 windows. Windows are mainly plain casements. High central hall flanked on all sides by single storey ranges. Hall has ramped shouldered gables with side pilasters with ball finials and central pedestal with urn finial. Each gable has a round-arched window with voussoirs and keystone. The roof has 2 octagonal wooden bell turrets with swept lead roofs and finials. Single coped side wall stack. Tinsley Park Road front has a central through-eaves dormer with segmental pediment, flanked by single light windows. Beyond, single swept coped gables with segmental pediments and triple windows with label moulds. To left, a gabled porch with segment-headed recessed door, flanked by single small windows. In the return angle, set back hipped projection. To right, projecting cross-wing, with segmental pediment and 3-light mullioned window. Below and to left, corner porch with catslide roof and segment-headed doorway. To right, single small window. Right return has central concave sided gable flanked by smaller convex sided gables with segmental pediments. 3 triple windows with label moulds. To right, a small through-eaves dormer. Gable to rear has 2 small windows flanking a projecting gable stack. Below, a 3-light mullioned window to left, and a single window to right. Left return has 2 swept coped gables, the right one projecting, with triple windows and label moulds. To right, recessed hipped corner with 3-light mullioned window. INTERIOR not inspected. E Holmes, in partnership with AF Holmes, 1893-1906, designed a number of Board Schools in Sheffield, of which this is a particularly ornate example. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3877689121