Wharncliffe House
WHARNCLIFFE HOUSE, 44, BANK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246535
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Wharncliffe House
- Statutory Address:
- WHARNCLIFFE HOUSE, 44, BANK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246535
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Wharncliffe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHARNCLIFFE HOUSE, 44, BANK 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:
- WHARNCLIFFE HOUSE, 44, BANK 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 35511 87654
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3587NE BANK STREET 784-1/20/55 (North side) No.44 Wharncliffe House
GV II
Town house, now offices. c1885, converted and mansard roof added, 1980. Built as a town house for the Earl of Wharncliffe. Stucco, painted, with metal clad roof. Italianate style. Rusticated ground floor and basement with enriched cornice, minor cornice and renewed coped parapet. 2 storeys plus attics, mansard and basement; 5 x 4 windows. Windows are mainly plain sashes. Projecting central bay has a central window with moulded surround, pediment on brackets, and wrought-iron railing to dummy balcony. Above, a smaller window with eared architrave and similar railing to dummy balcony. Below, moulded round-arched doorcase with rusticated pilasters, enriched keystone, and cornice on enriched brackets. Recessed panelled door and wrought-iron gates. Flanking the central bay, 2 plain sashes with cornices and shaped keystones. Above, 2 plain sashes with moulded eared architraves. Below, 2 plain sashes with voussoirs and mask keystones. Left return, 4 windows, has similar fenestration plus 4 basement windows with wrought-iron guards. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SK3551187654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455360
- 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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