Brightside Nursery, Infant School Main Block

Brightside Nursery, the main block of an infant school, was built in 1880 and has undergone some alterations in the mid-20th century. Designed by E.R. Robson for the Sheffield School Board, the building features coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steeply pitched gabled and hipped slate roofs. The main roof is topped with a swept-sided stone bell turret that has a single round-arched opening, and there are two ridge stacks and one side wall stack.

The building has an E-plan layout and is two storeys high with five windows across the front and four down the side. The east front, facing the school yard, includes three through-eaves dormers, each with a segment-arched double sash window that has a keystone and a traceried central light above a fanlight. Between the dormers are flat-headed double sash windows. On the lower level, there are five segment-arched double sashes with transoms and tripartite fanlights. Each gable is adorned with a pedestal and segmental pediment, featuring a large round-arched window in a recess, flanked by smaller segment-arched windows. Below these, a round-arched central window with a keystone is flanked by smaller flat-headed windows. The rear gables mirror these features. Each side has a gabled through-eaves dormer with a segment-arched double sash and keystone, and below is a similar window.

The central rear projection has a hipped roof and contains two large three-light cross casements, with two double sashes below and single-storey, full-width mid-20th century brick addition with a coped parapet. There is a single window on each floor beyond this addition. The interior has not been inspected. E.R. Robson, who was the architect for the London School Board, designed this school as part of a series of educational buildings for the Sheffield School Board, which typically employed local architects for their projects.