page_title: Sherwood State School
section_title: Sectional school buildings (Block B and Block C)
hierarchical_section_title: Sherwood State School / Description / Sectional school buildings (Block B and Block C)
caption_attribution_description: English: View to Block B, projecting teachers room and Boulton &amp; Paul extension (right), from northwest (EHP, 2016)
context_page_description: Sherwood State School is a heritage-listed state school at 464 Oxley Road, Sherwood, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The buildings were built from built from 1874 to 1974. The designers included Boulton & Paul, Ltd and the Department of Public Works. It was formerly known as West Oxley National School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 15 July 2016.
context_section_description: The sectional school buildings are both highset, timber-framed structures, aligned east-west, with partially enclosed verandahs along the northern side, large banks of windows along the southern side, and blank end walls. The Dutch-gabled and gabled (eastern end of Block C) roofs are clad with corrugated metal and have battened gable infills; Block B features a prominent ventilation roof fleche. Both have gable-roofed teachers rooms projecting north from the verandahs, flanked by timber stairs.
  The buildings are clad externally in weatherboards, and the verandah walls and raked ceilings are lined with a single-skin of VJ T&G boards. The walls and flat ceilings of the classrooms and teachers room are lined with VJ T&G boards; the ceiling of the western classroom in Block B is flat-sheeted. Square ceiling vent frames, centred on the former classrooms and banks of southern windows, demonstrate the earlier layouts.
caption: View to Block B, projecting teachers room and Boulton & Paul extension (right), from northwest, 2016
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