| Description | This board school was built 1897 by C M Hargreaves for the Bradford School Board. It is Listed under the name 'Carlton Bolling School'. It has had minor 20th century additions and alterations. It has been built from rock faced stone with ashlar dressings, and has gabled and hipped slate roofs. It has a coped external side wall stack, and a rusticated basement, sill bands, eaves cornice and coped gables. It is built in the Renaissance Revival style, and is two storeys high plus basement and attics. The building is 10 windows wide, arranged 2:6:2. The openings to the first floor and basement have mainly elliptical arches and keystones. The upper floors have windows with stone cross mullions. The windows are mainly the original glazing bar lights. In the left end bay, there is a cross mullioned panel inscribed: ‘Hanson Board School’. The roof has a central square bell turret with a pyramidal roof and wind vane. The school has gender specific entrances (girls to the south and boys to the north), floors and staircases.
In 2005, a building recording was carried out prior to the proposed conversion of the school to apartments, however it is not known whether these changes have yet taken place. |