Crookesmoor Middle School And Boundary Wall

This is a board school, later a middle school, dating to 1874, with additions in 1881 and 1887. It was designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, with a further addition by CJ Innocent in 1887, and later additions and alterations in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has gabled and hipped slate roofs. It is designed in a Gothic Revival style.

The exterior features string courses and coped gables. The building is single-storey and two storeys high, with a basement, and has a 15-window front. The windows are mostly casements with transoms. The central hipped block has a graduated quadruple ridge stack with louvred openings, and a square wooden bell turret with a square fish scale slate spire and finial. The Oxford Street front has a central block with a continuous 12-light window with pointed heads and blind tracery. Above this, two gables, each with a graduated triple lancet with tracery, placed on an inscribed sillband. A stone rainwater head with a cartouche is set between the windows. Below, a full-width single-storey flat-roofed porch has a central pair of gated doorways flanked by three small windows. Projecting canted wings with hipped roofs extend beyond the porch. To the left, there are two shouldered stepped single lancet stair windows, with two single lancets below. To the right, a single window is visible on the basement level and a second-floor window. The Crookesmoor Road front also features a hipped central block with decorative ridge tiles and the bell turret with a pyramidal roof and finial. To the left, a gable has a 3-light stone mullioned cross casement set on a sillband, with a round-arched basement opening below. To the right, a smaller set-back gable is visible. A single-storey block with gabled and hipped roofs and a triple ridge stack is located in front of the smaller gable, featuring two 2-light stone mullioned windows. A canted porch with a hexagonal pyramidal roof and a segment-headed doorway is located on the left return angle, with a single small window to the side. The interior was not inspected.

A stone boundary wall, with gabled stone coping and an acute angled rounded corner, extends along Tay Street. A single gateway is present on Oxford Street. The school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board and is considered to be one of the earliest to be built in England following the 1870 Education Act.