Darnall School (Now Playgroup) Rear Range

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE DARNALL ROAD 784-1/6/239 (South West side) Darnall School (now playgroup) rear range

GV II

School, now playgroup premises. 1892, with late C20 alterations. By CJ Innocent. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, topped with an octagonal wooden bell turret with swept octagonal spire and finial. Single lozenge-shaped ridge stack. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: sillband and coped main gables with kneelers. Single storey plus basement; 8 window range. In the centre, 2 large through-eaves dormers, each with a cross casement with shouldered lights, set in a pointed arched recess. Between the windows, a buttress, and above it, an unglazed lancet. To right, a single window, then a smaller through-eaves dormer with a shouldered single light. Beyond, a gabled cross-wing with a graduated 4-light window with shouldered lights, set in a pointed arched recess with 3 breathers in the peak. Beyond again, a lower hipped section with a 2-light flush mullioned window, and a door below it. Set back lower entrance block, to left, has a through-eaves dormer with a shouldered single light, flanked to left by a single window. Left gable has a 3-light pointed arched window and below, a 2-light window and a door, both segment-headed. Main block rear elevation has similar fenestration to the front. Basement has 4 Tudor arched openings, all blocked, the right one with a narrow door inserted. To left, gabled cross-wing with a graduated 3-light window with pointed central light flanked by shouldered lights. Below, 2 Tudor arched glazing bar windows. To left again, hipped section with two 2-light flush mullioned windows and below, a larger flush mullioned window. To its right, a door with elliptical arched tympanum and mullioned overlight, flanked to right by a small single window. INTERIOR not inspected. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3879488254