North West Barrack Block to Former Hillsborough Barracks
NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246523
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- North West Barrack Block to Former Hillsborough Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246523
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- North West Barrack Block to Former Hillsborough Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD
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:
- NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH 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 33515 89537
Details
SK 38 NW SHEFFIELD LANGSETT ROAD
(North East side)
784-1/5/462
North-west barrack block to
12.12.1995 former Hillsborough Barracks
GV II
Barrack block, now flats. 1848-54, used as industrial workshops mid C20, converted 1990. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with 7 ridge stacks. PLAN: 4 five-window barrack rooms to each floor. EXTERIOR: Plinth, first-floor band, coped parapets. 2 storeys; 20 window range. Windows are glazing bar sashes. Slightly projecting central block, 10 windows, flanked by 5 windows. Below, 4 sashes flanked by doors. Beyond, 4 windows, then single doors, then 2 windows. Panelled and double leaved doors with blank fanlights. Rear has similar fenestration with loft doors above the ground floor doors, some of them blocked, and an off-centre mid C20 addition. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Hillsborough was built in response to anxiety over civil unrest. One of the first barracks planned with reformed ideas preceeding the Crimean War , and an early example of historicist architecture applied to this building type. Despite conversion, much of the original site survives, including officers' quarters and institute, hospital, magazine, stables and riding school, 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: SK3351589537
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455338
- 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.
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