Caretakers House Walkley Board School Wall And Railing

The building comprises a board school and attached caretaker's house, along with boundary walls and railings, dating from 1874 and 1877 respectively. Designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, with a later addition in 1907 by H.L. Patterson. Constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, it features gabled and hipped slate roofs, coped gables, decorative ridge tiles, and three stone ridge stacks connected by louvred ventilators. The H-plan building of three storeys features a six-window range on the front. The front gable exhibits corner buttresses, a central cusped pointed arched niche containing a datestone, and a bell turret with a pyramidal spire and finial. The main school block has boarded ground floor windows, and above, a string course forming pointed arches with slit ventilators. The caretaker's house, attached to the left of the main gable, is three storeys high and two windows wide, with a hipped projection to the left return and a box dormer. The rear cross-wing features twelve unequally spaced shouldered windows and six large segment-headed arches. The interior was not inspected. The site is enclosed by a low boundary wall with triangular stepped coping and a wrought-iron railing and gate, with a double gate to the right and a round-cornered wall in front of the main gable. The boundary wall tapers to round corners overall. The school is notable as one of the earliest examples constructed after the 1870 Education Act.