Holly Building

The Holly Building is a pupil teachers' centre, later used as education offices, built in 1899 by HW Lockwood for the Sheffield School Board. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has hipped slate roofs. The building is three storeys tall, with a basement and clerestory. It has a seven-window front, with two prominent, four-storey canted bay windows topped with spires. These bays contain three two-light mullioned windows on each floor. Behind the bays are square ventilator shafts with corniced, louvred tops. At the centre of the front are three three-light windows with carved tympanums above; on either side are similar windows with plain tympanums. Above the main three storeys is an attic storey with a lean-to roof and four three-light windows with wooden mullions. Above that is a clerestory with three larger, similar windows. A projecting, central porch has a crenellated balustrade and a raised coped central block containing a datestone. The central entrance is a four-centred arch with panelled double doors and a plain fanlight, above which is a three-light mullioned lancet. Flanking the porch are tall three-light cross-mullioned windows, and beyond the bay windows, a similar window. The basement has six round-headed openings with rusticated multiple keystones. The right return has three floors with a large two-light mullioned window to each. The interior has not been inspected. The Holly Building is part of a group demonstrating the expansion of Sheffield's educational facilities on a single site.