Leopold Chambers
LEOPOLD CHAMBERS, 1,3 AND 5, LEOPOLD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246529
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Leopold Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- LEOPOLD CHAMBERS, 1,3 AND 5, LEOPOLD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246529
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Leopold Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEOPOLD CHAMBERS, 1,3 AND 5, LEOPOLD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LEOPOLD CHAMBERS, 47 AND 49, CHURCH STREET
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:
- LEOPOLD CHAMBERS, 1,3 AND 5, LEOPOLD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LEOPOLD CHAMBERS, 47 AND 49, CHURCH STREET
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 35262 87405
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3587SW LEOPOLD STREET 784-1/24/475 (North East side) Nos.1, 3 AND 5 Leopold Chambers
GV II
Includes: Nos.47 AND 49 Leopold Chambers CHURCH STREET. Commercial building, now offices and shops. 1894, with mid and late C20 alterations. By Holmes & Watson. For Webster & Styring, solicitors. Ashlar with slate roof. 2 gable and 3 ridge coped ashlar stacks. Flemish Renaissance Revival style. Incomplete plinth, string courses and sillbands, coped parapet. 3 storeys plus attics; 6 window range. Curved front on corner site. Windows are stone mullioned cross casements. Regular fenestration with 3 bays having canted 2 storey oriel windows topped with balconies, each bay culminating in a dormer with shouldered shaped gable and finial. On each floor, a 3-light window. 2 intermediate bays have a 4-light window on each floor, flanked by pilasters, and a smaller shaped gable to the dormer. Right hand entrance bay has a tall first floor window, 3 lights, with double transoms, and above, a 3-light window on each floor. Below, ashlar doorcase with paired Doric columns on pedestals, and entablature with frieze inscribed "Leopold Chambers". Panelled double doors. Ground floor has continuous late C20 shopfronts with ashlar pilasters. INTERIOR not inspected. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3526287405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455346
- 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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