Description

SE 10 NE FIRTH STREET
Shepley

8/33 Shepley First School

II

Former Board School. Dated 1896. Pitch-faced stone with ashlar
dressings. Slate roofs. Free Northern Renaissance style. Two-
storey central hall surrounded by single storey classrooms, three
of which run across the front and have the main entrances between.
Central gabled part with large elliptical arched window with slender
Ionic colonnettes as mullions, and one transom, surmounted by steep
pediment with elaborate carving in tympanum, flanked and surmounted
by urns. Classroom to each side forms separate pavilion with
pyramidal roof and small clerestory window surmounted by gablet.
Between the classrooms are the girls' and boys' entrances with bulbous
engaged Ionic columns and tall swan-necked and enriched pediments.

The clerestory of the hall rises behind as a wide gable flanked by
octagonal buttresses which terminate in richly carved cartouches and
domical cap. The detail resembles the central gable at the front,
but with swagged frieze and inscription at apex "1896 BOARD SCHOOLS",
topped by small, flat shell-head.

A particularly elaborate example of its type.

Listing NGR: SE1942609650

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428747

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas