Shepley First School

Shepley First School is a former Board School built in 1896. It features pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, designed in a Free Northern Renaissance style. The building has a two-storey central hall surrounded by single-storey classrooms, with three classrooms at the front and main entrances located between them. The central gabled section includes a large elliptical arched window with slender Ionic colonnettes as mullions and one transom, topped by a steep pediment with intricate carving in the tympanum, flanked and topped by urns. Each classroom on the sides forms a separate pavilion with a pyramidal roof and a small clerestory window topped by a gablet.

The girls' and boys' entrances are situated between the classrooms, featuring bulbous engaged Ionic columns and tall swan-necked enriched pediments. The clerestory of the hall rises behind as a wide gable, flanked by octagonal buttresses that end in richly carved cartouches and domical caps. This detail resembles the central gable at the front but includes a swagged frieze and an inscription at the apex reading "1896 BOARD SCHOOLS," topped by a small flat shell-head. This building is a particularly elaborate example of its type.