HOSPITAL AND AREA RAILING TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGFH BARRACKS

HOSPITAL AND AREA RAILING TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGFH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246505
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: HOSPITAL AND AREA RAILING TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGFH BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: HOSPITAL AND AREA RAILING TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGFH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246505
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: HOSPITAL AND AREA RAILING TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGFH BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: HOSPITAL AND AREA RAILING TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGFH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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:: HOSPITAL AND AREA RAILING TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGFH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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 33471 89536

Details

SK 38 NW SHEFFIELD LANGSETT ROAD (North East side) 784-1/5/463 Hospital and area railing to former Hillsborough Barracks 12.12.95

GV II

Barrack hospital, now flats, and attached area railing. 1848-54, with early C20 additions, used as industrial workshops mid C20, converted 1990. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs. EXTERIOR: Plinth, first floor band, half-round eaves, coped parapets. 2 storeys plus basement; 16 window range. Windows are glazing bar sashes. Recessed centre has 2 windows on each floor. On either side, slightly projecting blocks, 5 windows, and below, central pointed arched double doors with steps, keystones and fanlights, flanked by 2 windows. Left block has the 2 windows to the left of the door replaced by a mid C20 sliding garage door. Outer bays have 2 windows on each floor. Basement has 9-pane sashes divided by cross walls. At the rear, two 3-storey projections flanked by external stairs, and linked by a cast-iron gallery and verandah with early C20 additions. Trefoil-pierced crest linking the tops of the cast-iron posts. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEA TURES: Outside, cast-iron spearhead area railing. HISTORY : Hillsborough was built in response to anxiety over civil unrest. Planned according to reformed ideas preceeding the Crimean War, and one of the first barracks to use a historicist, castellated style following those at the Tower of London (1845). Despite conversion, much of the original site survives, including officers' quarters, barracks, stables and riding school, magazine and guard house (qqv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London.: 1967-: 472; Skeleton record plan of ground floor: 1907-1923).

Listing NGR: SK3347189536

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 455299
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 472

Legal

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