Caretakers House Walkley Board School Wall And Railing

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW BURNABY WALK 784-1/5/123 (East side) 03/06/92 Walkley Board School, caretaker's house (No.189), wall and railing

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Board school and attached caretaker's house, boundary wall and railing. Dated 1874, with caretaker's house 1877. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Addition 1907 by HL Patterson. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with coped gables and decorative ridge tiles. Gothic Revival style. 3 stone ridge stacks with multiple flues linked by ventilators with louvred openings. Plinth and sillbands. H-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 6 window range. Ground floor windows boarded at time of survey. Shouldered front gable has corner buttresses. Central cusped pointed arched niche with datestone and inscribed band below. Above it, a shallow buttress rising into a stepped bracket carrying a diagonally set bell turret with pyramidal spire and finial. 4 pointed arched openings. Flanking the buttress, 2 segment-arched stepped windows with transoms and cusped heads. Above them, a string course forming pointed arches, each with 4 slit ventilators. Ground floor has 2 flat-headed windows and a doorway to right. On either side, set back wings, the left hipped, the right gabled. Left wing has a single window, and below, in the return angle, an angled infill with 2 larger shouldered windows. Right wing has single large window. Right return has gable to left, with a triple window with larger round-arched central light. Below, a single storey projection with flat roof and 2 segment-headed windows. Central block has a stone mullioned cross casement flanked by single gabled through-eaves dormers, each with a stone mullioned cross casement with round-arched lights. Above them, slit ventilators. Below, 2 windows to left, a 3 large segment-headed triple windows to right. In the left return angle, an angled doorway. Rear cross-wing has 12 unequally spaced shouldered windows. Below, 6 large segment-headed arches. Returns have 2 shouldered windows above, and a single arch below. Caretaker's house, to left of main gable, 3 storeys plus attics; 2 window range. On the first floor, a small window to left, and a larger window to right. Above, a 2-light casement. Below, 2 windows, the right one larger. Left return has a large hipped projection with a box dormer. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, low boundary wall with triangular stepped coping and wrought-iron railing and gate. To right, a double wrought-iron gate. Round cornered wall in front of the main gable has chamfered ashlar stepped coping and wrought-iron railing. Boundary wall with triangular coping and round corners encloses the polygonal site. This school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest in England to be built after the 1870 Education Act. Building vacant at time of survey. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3357588924