Birkby Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. A Late C19 School. 12 related planning applications.
Birkby Junior School
- WRENN ID
- last-entrance-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1. 5113 SE 1418 22/1351
WASP NEST ROAD (East Side) Fartown Birkby Junior School
II
2. Late C19. Rock-faced stone. Half-hipped slate roof, with many barge-boarded and elaborately timber-framed gables on coved jetties. One storey wings. Central 2-storey block, inscribed "Hillhouse Board School," and entered on 1st floor by flight of balustraded stone steps. 3 storey tower, with pointed arched entrance inscribed "Infants" on ground floor, machicolated parapet and very elaborate carpentry bell tower with clocks on 4 sides and tall octagonal slated spire. Most windows are casements in chamfered surrounds with mullions. 1st floor window in central block and 2nd floor window in tower also have transoms. Windows in gabled parts of wings have trefoiled relieving arches above, and rose windows with plate tracery above these, the whole in pointed relieving arches. Lower one storey extension to west, with pointed arched doorway inscribed "Boys." Extension to rear on undercroft with pointed arched windows, formerly the Girls' School.
Listing NGR: SE1436418105
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