Penistone Grammar School was founded in 1392 but only transferred to its current site in 1893 (see HSY6167 for original building). The move was orchestrated by a new Headmaster, Joseph Fulford, who brought about improvements in standards and the admittance of girls to the school in 1907 (Hey 2002). The school is now a modern comprehensive. The Sixth form college building is the site of the former Penistone Union Workhouse (see HSY6096). Previously an area of enclosed strip fields. Some of the external field boundaries remain but the internal ones have been removed. Legibility of the enclosed landscape is fragmentary.