JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN

JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246527
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN
Statutory Address:: JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246527
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN
Statutory Address 1:: JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE 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:: JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE 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:: SK3452287287

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK3487SE LEAVY GREAVE ROAD 784-1/23/473 (North side) Jessop Hospital for Women

GV II

Womens' hospital. 1878, by John Dodsley Webster. For Thomas Jessop. Addition to west 1902, in a sympathetic style. Gothic Revival style. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with various coped brick stacks. L-plan. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands, machicolated eaves, coped gables. 3 storeys; 8 window range. Windows are mainly transomed or cross mullioned, with stone mullions. Entrance front has central range, 5 windows, flanked by gabled wings. Slightly projecting central entrance bay topped by a single stage tower with cornice and plain parapet, and 2 single lancet openings on each side, with hoodmoulds. On the first floor, 3 cross casements flanked by single light windows. Above, similar fenestration, with an ogee crest to the central window. Below, round-arched entrance with double doors, inscribed lintel, label mould and crest. On either side, a cross casement, then a single light window, with label moulds and crests. Left gable has a cross casement and above, a taller cross casement with traceried ogee head and finial. Below, a square bay window with 3-light cross casement. Right gable has 2 cross casements and above, 2 similar windows with traceried ogee heads and between them, a roundel. Below, two 3-light cross casements with label moulds and finials. Right return, 3 windows, has a central projecting gabled bay and to left, a 2 storey square oriel window at the corner, topped with a pyramidal spire. Left return has 2 canted 3 storey bay windows, the left one with a large C20 flat-roofed bay window. West front has to right an entrance block, 3 storeys plus attics, with 2 windows in the centre flanked by gabled wings. On the ground floor, a single storey central porch with parapet. To left, a lower block with coped parapet and central projecting bay with 3 storey canted bay window topped with a balustrade. On either side, 2 windows. At the left corner, a 2 storey square oriel window topped with a pyramidal spire. Left return has a canted 3 storey bay window to left, topped with a balustrade, and 2 windows to right. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3452287287

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Legacy System number:: 455344
Legacy System:: LBS

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