Description

SE 50 NW
11/8

ADWICK-LE-STREET
CHADWICK ROAD
(south side),
Woodlands
Woodlands First School

GV
II

School. c1910 with later additions. For the Brodsworth Colliery Company.
Red brick with ashlar limestone dressings, red tile roof. Rectangular,
2-storey assembly hall with twin 1-storey classroom wings on 3 sides; main
entrance between twin cloakroom wings on north side with flanking toilet
blocks set back in corners; in Arts and Crafts style; later additions to
right return and 3 corners are not of special interest. Entrance has ashlar
portico with buttresses flanking square-headed double doors in splayed recess
beneath hollow-moulded segmental arch with string course and coped parapet
over; flanking wings lit by 2-light casements with projecting sills and plain
heads beneath gables with lozenge motifs and shaped ashlar copings; toilet
blocks with 3 windows, string course and segmental-headed ashlar parapets
set between brick piers. Classroom wing to each side have 1- and 2-light
windows, coped end gables and hipped roofs at junction with central block;
conical ridge ventilators. Central assembly hall range lit by a pair of
linked dormers each with cross window beneath gables as rest; from roof slope
to each side rise offset brick stacks with oversailing bands at top; large
octagonal central ridge ventilator with balustraded sides and cornice to
leaded ogee dome. Returns: classroom gables have 4-light windows, otherwise
as front; central block with square-headed windows and timbered upper gables
beneath plain bargeboards. Important element of the Woodlands colliery
village designed and laid out by Percy Houfton from 1907 (see under Church of
All Saints, Central Avenue).

Listing NGR: SE5334607628

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601258

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)