| Description | This board school was built in 1897 and was previously known as Gipton Board School. It was built by WS Braithwaite, who was the last School Board architect, from red brick, with ashlar and carved stone details, and a slate roof. It is three storeys high over a basement and is 8 x 2 bays wide. It was built in Renaissance Revival style. It has a symmetrical façade, with an entrance in the projecting 2nd and 7th bays. These entrances each have a recessed doorway, round arch porch, paired fluted pilasters, a keystone and brackets to a deep entablature with recessed panels, cornice and pediments, a tall segmental arched stair window above, a blind arcade and a pyramidal roof with a small cupola. The building has segmental and flat arched windows, with transoms and mullions to the first floor. The centre two bays have ornate Dutch style gables with ball finials. There are semicircular pediments over bays 1 and 7 and on the right return, and an arcaded parapet.
(Text edited from English heritage LBO description).
In 2003, a planning application was made for envelop works at this school, but there was no apparent significant archaeological or architectural implications identified. |