Description

1.
5113
SE 1418
22/1351

WASP NEST ROAD
(East Side)
Fartown
Birkby Junior School

II

2.
Late C19. Rock-faced stone. Half-hipped slate roof, with many barge-boarded
and elaborately timber-framed gables on coved jetties. One storey wings.
Central 2-storey block, inscribed "Hillhouse Board School," and entered on
1st floor by flight of balustraded stone steps. 3 storey tower, with pointed
arched entrance inscribed "Infants" on ground floor, machicolated parapet and
very elaborate carpentry bell tower with clocks on 4 sides and tall octagonal
slated spire. Most windows are casements in chamfered surrounds with mullions.
1st floor window in central block and 2nd floor window in tower also have transoms.
Windows in gabled parts of wings have trefoiled relieving arches above, and
rose windows with plate tracery above these, the whole in pointed relieving
arches. Lower one storey extension to west, with pointed arched doorway inscribed
"Boys." Extension to rear on undercroft with pointed arched windows, formerly
the Girls' School.

Listing NGR: SE1436418105

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518442

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