Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. School. 1 related planning application.

Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house

WRENN ID
old-turret-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1995
Type
School
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools and attached caretaker's house are a junior and infant school complex dating to 1874, with additions and a caretaker's house built in 1877. The design is by Innocent & Brown, and the buildings were commissioned for the Sheffield School Board. They are constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and have hipped and gabled slate roofs. The school building stands in a Gothic Revival style and is arranged in an L-plan with a projecting polygonal corner.

The exterior features plinths, impost bands, chamfered eaves, coped gables, and small gabled roof ventilators. The London Road front has a prominent main gable with a pointed arched recess containing two tall lancet windows alternating with three shorter lancet windows, all with transoms. A shaped plaque and datestone sit above this window. To the left is a single-stage square bell tower with a string course, dentilled eaves, a pyramidal roof, an octagonal spire, a finial, and louvred bell openings. To the left of the bell tower is a range with a segment-headed blocked door with overlight, flanked by three casements to the left and two casements to the right, all with trefoil carved lintels. Beyond this is a polygonal projection with a conical roof and six windows. The left return has five shouldered windows, and to the left a gabled wing with a pointed arched recess containing a triple lancet. To the right is a range with two shouldered two-light windows, followed by a single window. A gabled dormer with a shouldered window sits above. Attached at the right is a two-storey gabled caretaker's house with a gable stack. The caretaker’s house has a renewed first-floor casement and, below, a cusped-headed doorway to the left and a shouldered casement to the right.

The interior has not been inspected.

The school is one of several designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board and represents among the earliest schools built in England following the 1870 Education Act.

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