Crookesmoor Middle School And Boundary Wall

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW CROOKESMOOR ROAD 784-1/5/232 (South East side) 15/02/95 Crookesmoor Middle School and boundary wall

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Board school, now middle school, with adjoining boundary wall. 1874, with additions 1881. By Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board. Further addition 1887, by CJ Innocent. Mid C20 additions and alterations. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: string courses and coped gables. Single storey and 2 storeys plus basement; 15 window range. Windows are mainly casements with transoms. Hipped central block has a graduated quadruple ridge stack with louvred openings, and a square wooden bell turret with square fish scale slate spire and finial. Oxford Street front has a central block with a continuous 12-light window with pointed heads and blind tracery. Above, 2 gables, each with a graduated triple lancet with tracery, on an inscribed sillband. Between the windows, a stone rainwater head with cartouche. Below, a full width single storey flat-roofed porch with a central pair of gated doorways flanked by 3 small windows. Beyond, projecting canted wings with hipped roofs. To left, 2 shouldered stepped single lancet stair windows, and below, 2 single lancets. To right, a single window to the basement and to the second floor. Crookesmoor Road front has a hipped central block with decorative ridge tiles, topped with a square wooden bell turret with pyramidal roof and finial. To left, a gable with a 3-light stone mullioned cross casement on a sillband, and below, a round-arched basement opening. To right, a smaller set back gable. Fronting the smaller gable, a single storey block with gabled and hipped roof and a triple ridge stack. Two 2-light stone mullioned windows. To left, in the return angle, a canted porch with hexagonal pyramidal roof and segment-headed doorway. On the left side, a small single window. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside stone boundary wall to Tay Street, with gabled stone coping and acute angled rounded corner. Single gateway to Oxford Street. This school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is one of the earliest to be built in England after the 1870 Education Act. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3397487881