bensonhedges Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Tucked away on Shoreham St - never noticed it before - anybody know anything? Thanks http://goo.gl/maps/x5njo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I went to the infant school that was next door, Duchess Road, not sure if the building had a connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Wardle Joseph Isaac, caretaker, 229 Shoeham Street. 1925 directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I always assumed it to have been the caretaker's or head-teacher's residence. Looking at it now, it seems not to have been a detached house, but rather an end terrace. Right on the school entrance though, so it could have been associated with the school, which may explain it's survival when the rest were demolished. 229, Shoreham Street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Hobson, Charles (caretaker). 229, Shoreham Street, Sheffield Whites 1905 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Beavers William, caretaker, 1901. Hobson Walter, caretaker, 1911. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Picture Sheffield Sheffield City Council, Building Maintenance Division - 1980's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Picture Sheffield Sheffield City Council, Building Maintenance Division - 1980's I think part of the school was used for training purposes, if so that could explain the sign on the building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensonhedges Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 Thanks - it's amazing the knowledge there is on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I thought everybody knew that this was a school caretakers house and eventually someone working for the maintainence dept lived there, nothing unusual about the house really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckweed Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I am not so sure that it is that simple. Some of the buildings there are of a works not a school,and looking at them are much earlier looking at the stonework and wondered if an earlier works entrance taken over when they built the school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 The original Duchess Road School .. http://www.picturesheffield.com I'm reasonably sure the photo was taken from Edmund Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Circa 1903. Link to Flash Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensonhedges Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 I thought everybody knew that this was a school caretakers house and eventually someone working for the maintainence dept lived there, nothing unusual about the house really. Obviously not, or I wouldn't have asked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensonhedges Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 Circa 1903. c,1903.jpg Link to Flash Earth You wouldn't happen to have that same era map, but showing Clough Bank, off Edmund Road at the end of Cherry Street, would you please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 You wouldn't happen to have that same era map, but showing Clough Bank, off Edmund Road at the end of Cherry Street, would you please? I'll send you a pm (message). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Just a theory, but I think it may have been built as a detached house and soon afterwards it was joined onto by the subsequent terrace. My reasons: 1/ The coping stones on each gable look to be original. The one at the chimney end is not something you would put on a row of level terrace houses. This suggests that the roof was not continuous. 2/ The building has a slightly different footprint to the rest of the row. (Being wider and less deep) This is apparent on the 1903 map as well as this one below. 3/ It seems to have it's own chimney, which looks to be "all round" stone above the roof line. If it was part of a terrace, with the chimney in that position, it would almost certainly have shared the chimney stack with the house next door. Could just be the ramblings of an old man though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Good pics Steve. From these photos it certainly looks like it was originally detached . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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