WHIRLOW COURT

WHIRLOW COURT, ECCLESALL ROAD SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058968
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: WHIRLOW COURT
Statutory Address:: WHIRLOW COURT, ECCLESALL ROAD SOUTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058968
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: WHIRLOW COURT
Statutory Address 1:: WHIRLOW COURT, ECCLESALL ROAD SOUTH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WHIRLOW COURT, ECCLESALL ROAD SOUTH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 31595 82885

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38SW ECCLESALL ROAD SOUTH 784-1/9/301 (South East side) Whirlow Court

II

Small country house, now judges' lodging. c1870. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with 3 coped stone ridge stacks. Tudor Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, string course, eaves band, crenellated parapets, coped gables. 2 storeys; 5 window range. Double depth plan. Asymmetrical entrance front has central square crenellated tower, 3 stages, with taller octagonal crenellated turret. Canted crenellated stone oriel window with stone cross casement, carried on buttress flanked by transomed single light windows. Above, a double lancet with flat head and label mould. To right, a 4-light cross mullioned window with label mould, flanked to right by a flat-headed single window. Below the main window, a gabled porch with flanking buttress and moulded doorway with hoodmould, half-glazed double door and fanlight. On either side, a single window. Beyond, on either side, a single flat-headed window. Above and to left, a small window between floors. To left of the tower, 3-light and 2-light flat-headed windows. Below, a parapeted flat-roofed projection with a transomed 5-light cross mullioned window. To left again, a gabled cross-wing. Garden front has three 2 storey bay windows, the outer ones canted and with a 3-light cross mullioned window on each floor, the upper ones smaller. Square central bay window has pedimented parapet with crest, and a 4-light cross mullioned window on each floor, the lower one altered to form a French window. On either side, a 2-light mullioned window, and below, to right, a tall 3-light cross mullioned window. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3159582885

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Legacy System number:: 457539
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.