Post Delivery Office 100 Metres North East of Church of St John (Church Not Included)
POST DELIVERY OFFICE 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CHURCH NOT INCLUDED), ABBEYDALE ROAD SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246419
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Post Delivery Office 100 Metres North East of Church of St John (Church Not Included)
- Statutory Address:
- POST DELIVERY OFFICE 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CHURCH NOT INCLUDED), ABBEYDALE ROAD SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246419
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Post Delivery Office 100 Metres North East of Church of St John (Church Not Included)
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST DELIVERY OFFICE 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CHURCH NOT INCLUDED), ABBEYDALE ROAD SOUTH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- POST DELIVERY OFFICE 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CHURCH NOT INCLUDED), ABBEYDALE 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 32244 81123
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38SW ABBEYDALE ROAD SOUTH 784-1/9/9 (East side) Post delivery office 100m NE of Church of St John (church not included)
II
Church room, now post delivery office. Dated 1893. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and fish scale slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, coped gables and finials. Central octagonal wooden bell turret with steeply gabled openings and spire topped with weather vane. Gothic Revival style. Cruciform plan. EXTERIOR: single storey plus basement; 3 bays. Central gable with flanking buttresses has moulded flat-headed doorway with drip mould, containing pointed arched double door with enriched spandrels. On either side, a single lancet. Above the door, a triple mosaic panel with central clock flanked by figures and inscription, divided by stone mullions under a drip mould. This commemorates the building's use as a hospital for Belgian forces during World War I. Above again, a slit ventilator. To right, a square porch with diagonal buttress and crenellated parapet. Small flat-headed doorway, and above, a blind quatrefoil. Right return has a 2-light flat-headed mullioned window. To left, main range has a triple lancet under a flat head. Gables have a graduated triple lancet to left and a quadruple lancet to right. Rear has a central projection with a graduated quadruple lancet. Basement has C20 door flanked by 2-light mullioned window and single window. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SK3224481123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455110
- 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.
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