Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house

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SK38NE 784-1/6/484

SHEFFIELD LONDON ROAD (east side) Lowfield Primary School Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house

(Formerly listed as Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house, LONDON ROAD)

GV II Junior and infant schools and attached caretaker's house. Dated 1874, with additions and caretaker's house 1877. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs. School has three lozenge-shaped ridge stacks, one with an attached single gabled ventilator, the others with multiple flues linked by arched ventilators with louvred openings. Gothic Revival style. L-plan with projecting polygonal corner.

EXTERIOR: plinth, impost band, chamfered eaves, coped gables, small gabled roof ventilators. Single storey plus attics; 10 x 6 windows. London Road front has an off-centre main gable with a pointed arched recess containing two tall lancets alternating with three shorter lancets, all with transoms. Above the window, a shaped plaque and datestone. To left, a single stage square bell tower with string course and dentilled eaves to a pyramidal roof topped with an octagonal spire, with finial and louvred bell openings. To left, a range with an off-centre segment-headed blocked door with overlight, flanked to left by three casements and to right by two casements, all with trefoil carved lintels. Beyond, a polygonal projection with conical roof and six windows. Left return has five shouldered windows, and to left, a gabled wing with a pointed arched recess containing a triple lancet. To right, a range with two shouldered two-light windows, then a single window. Above, a gabled dormer with a shouldered window. Beyond, two storey gabled caretaker's house with a gable stack. Renewed first floor casement and below, cusped headed doorway to left, and shouldered casement to right.

INTERIOR not inspected.

This school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest to be built in England after the 1870 Education Act. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3522385423