Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE LONDON ROAD
784-1/6/484 (East side)
Lowfield Junior and Infant Schools
and attached caretaker's house

GV II

Junior and infant schools and attached caretaker's house.
Dated 1874, with additions and caretaker's house 1877. By
Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Rock-faced
stone with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs.
School has 3 lozenge-shaped ridge stacks, one with an attached
single gabled ventilator, the others with multiple flues
linked by arched ventilators with louvred openings. Gothic
Revival style. L-plan with projecting polygonal corner.
EXTERIOR: plinth, impost band, chamfered eaves, coped gables,
small gabled roof ventilators. Single storey plus attics; 10 x
6 windows.
London Road front has an off-centre main gable with a pointed
arched recess containing 2 tall lancets alternating with 3
shorter lancets, all with transoms. Above the window, a shaped
plaque and datestone. To left, a single stage square bell
tower with string course and dentilled eaves to a pyramidal
roof topped with an octagonal spire, with finial and louvred
bell openings.
To left, a range with an off-centre segment-headed blocked
door with overlight, flanked to left by 3 casements and to
right by 2 casements, all with trefoil carved lintels.
Beyond, a polygonal projection with conical roof and 6
windows. Left return has 5 shouldered windows, and to left, a
gabled wing with a pointed arched recess containing a triple
lancet.
To right, a range with 2 shouldered 2-light windows, then a
single window. Above, a gabled dormer with a shouldered
window.
Beyond, 2 storey gabled caretaker's house with a gable stack.
Renewed first floor casement and below, cusped headed doorway
to left, and shouldered casement to right.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown
for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest to
be built in England after the 1870 Education Act.
(Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3522385423

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538938

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