Swinton School, Coldstream Road, Swinton

Dated 1876; opened 1877; remodelled and extended 1988. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay former schoolhouse with single storey, irregularly-planned school adjoined to SW with later additions to front and rear. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone; stugged sandstone dressings. Stugged quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to stop-chamfered openings; chamfered cills; sandstone mullions. Harled later additions.

FORMER SCHOOLHOUSE, SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: part glazed timber panelled door centred at ground; gabled window aligned above. Tripartite window at ground in bay to outer right; gabled bipartite window above. Gabled bay advanced to outer left with bipartite windows centred at both floors. NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window centred at ground; single window at 1st floor in gabled bay to outer left; bipartite windows at both floors in bay to outer right (gabled upper window). NW (REAR) ELEVATION: stair (?) window at centre; gabled bay advanced to left with single window at 1st floor off-set to right of centre; gabled bay advanced to right with 2 single windows at ground; bipartite window aligned at 1st floor. Lower gabled wing adjoined to outer right with timber door centred at ground; small bipartite window above.

SCHOOL, NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern entrance off set to right of centre with projecting gabled wings to left and right (adjoining original wings); flat-roofed addition in bay to outer left. SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: original 3-bay block at centre with bipartite window in bay to outer right; bipartite windows comprising alternate long and short openings in bays at centre and outer left. Modern additions to outer left and right. SE (REAR) ELEVATION: original block with replacement 2-leaf door at ground in bay to outer right; bipartite opening above; tripartite windows in remaining bays to left. Modern addition to front.

Lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to former schoolhouse and original school; modern glazing to later additions. Grey slate roofs; raised stone skews; gabletted skewputts. Single, paired and triple square-plan sandstone flues to former schoolhouse with prominent corniced caps, circular cans.

INTERIOR: some original features including hammerbeam brackets (false ceilings); boarded timber dado panelling.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE: round-arched coping to sandstone rubble walls dividing playground and former schoolhouse and enclosing site. Pyramidal-capped, square plan piers flanking school entrance; modern gates. Stop chamfered, square-plan sandstone piers flanking pedestrian entrance to schoolhouse; corniced, shallow pyramidal caps; iron gate.