Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3486NE CAVENDISH STREET
784-1/29/153 (West side)
Caretaker's House to Springfield
Junior and Infant Schools

GV II

Caretaker's house. c1877, with late C20 alterations. Probably
by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board. Rock-faced
stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs
with large rear gable stack. Plinth and coped gables.
2 storeys plus garrets; 2 window range. Front, to playground,
has to left a cross casement and to right, a smaller casement
with incised lintel, on a sillband. Above, a larger cross
casement to the garret. Below, a smaller casement, flanked to
right by a door with overlight. Left return has a cross
casement to the ground floor. All these windows have late C20
glazing. INTERIOR not inspected.
A number of caretakers' houses of similar design were added to
board schools in 1877-78.
An ancillary building to Springfield Junior and Infant Schools
(qv).
(Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3462386921

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539398

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey