Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE ATTERCLIFFE COMMON 784-1/6/38 (South East side) 24/11/94 Carbrook School Workshops (Formerly Listed as: ATTERCLIFFE COMMON Former Carbrook School)

GV II

Board school, now workshops. Dated 1874. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles and finials. Ridge stack with 2 lozenge-shaped flues, and 2 gable stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, coped gables. 2 storeys; 4 window range. Triple gabled symmetrical front has shouldered central gable flanked by gabled buttresses. 2 pointed arched recesses with hoodmoulds, containing graduated triple lancets with transoms. Above, a cusped niche with crocketed gable flanked by crocketed buttresses and small louvred openings. Below it, a dated panel. Above, an octagonal turret with conical spire and finial. Below, 2 tall segment-headed windows with transoms, flanked by buttresses. Beyond, on either side, 3 small casements. Side bays have similar recesses each containing 2 transomed lancets. Below, in the right bay, 3 segment-headed transomed windows. In the left bay, 2 similar windows, then a door to left. Returns have 4 shouldered casements on the first floor. Below, at the rear corner, a buttressed pier flanked by cusped arched openings covering a double doorway with overlight. Central block, 9 windows, has on each side 2 casements flanked by gabled through-eaves dormers, each with 2 tall shouldered windows with transoms. Beyond, 2 windows, one of them, to east, altered to a door. Below, to east, 8 segment-headed transomed windows. To west, 10 similar windows, one altered to a door. Crosswise hipped rear wing has 14 shouldered windows, and below, 6 segment-headed recesses with buttresses between the central and outer pairs. 5 round-headed glazing bar windows, the central one altered, and to right, a double board door. INTERIOR not inspected. This school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest in England to be built after the 1870 Education Act. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council; Innocent & Brown: Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools (etc): Sheffield: 1873-).

Listing NGR: SK3857189577

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