Brightside Nursery, Infant School Nursery And School House

The building comprises a nursery school and adjoining school house, dating from 1880, with alterations made in the mid-20th century by ER Robson, working for the Sheffield School Board. Constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steeply pitched slate roofs, it is designed in a Flemish Renaissance Revival style.

The school, situated to the left, is a single-story structure with attics and features a nine-window frontage. It follows an H-plan. The windows are primarily wooden-framed casements. The school yard frontage includes two cross casements, each flanked by smaller single windows. A buttress is centrally positioned, and above it, two raking dormers with four-light cross casements are present. The rear elevation mirrors this fenestration. A left cross-wing has coped gables, with a projecting centrepiece topped by a panel supported by volutes and crowned with a segmental pediment and finial. Above this centrepiece is a single transomed window, and below, three round-arched recesses, each containing a smaller window. The left return displays a central external stack with crowstepped shoulders and a coped flue, framing a round-arched recess containing a door flanked to the left by a single window. Above the door is a segmental arched window with patterned glazing bars. To the left are two large cross casements. The rear gable features a central segment-headed window with transom, overlight and keystone. The shorter right wing replicates the fenestration of the rear gable and right return.

Adjoining the school, at the right-front corner, is a three-story school house with attics, featuring a two-window frontage. It has a square plan. It is characterized by swept, coped gables topped with segmental pediments and coped square stacks. The Jenkin Road frontage incorporates a slightly projecting four-stage square stair turret, with a shaped gable and finial. Each floor of the turret presents a plain sash window. To the right of the turret is a twelve-pane sash, above which is a 20th-century tilting casement. Below, an ashlar doorcase houses a board door, flanked by smaller casements, all beneath a lintel with a cornice. The left return displays two round-arched recesses; the left having a late 20th-century window inserted, and above, a central plain sash with a projecting surround. A door with overlight is positioned below, flanked by a cross casement to the left and a smaller window to the right.

The interior has not been inspected. This school is one of two designed by ER Robson for the Sheffield School Board, the other being at Heeley Bank. These schools were part of a larger building program by the local architects for Sheffield School Board.