The Towers
THE TOWERS, 6, BRINCLIFFE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246922
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Towers
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWERS, 6, BRINCLIFFE CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246922
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Towers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWERS, 6, BRINCLIFFE CRESCENT
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:
- THE TOWERS, 6, BRINCLIFFE CRESCENT
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:
- SK3334085336
Details
SK38NW
784-1/5/99
SHEFFIELD
BRINCLIFFE CRESCENT
(South West side)
No.6
The Towers
GV
II
House. Dated 1874. For James Wilson. Coursed squared stone
with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. French
Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, eaves band, shouldered coped
gables with kneelers. 2 storeys plus attics; 2 x 6 windows.
Entrance front has 2 wooden framed cross casements with label
moulds, and 2 buttressed external stacks. Central crenellated
porch with buttresses and chamfered and moulded pointed arched
doorway with panelled double doors. Above the door, a niche
with crest and pinnacle. Right return has an unglazed opening
with cusped head and 2 shafts. On the left side, an attached
canted bay window with 2 plain sashes and central shaft. To
right, a canted hipped single storey projection with plinth
and moulded eaves and wooden framed cross casement with
glazing bars.
Garden front has to right a main block, with projecting
central round tower flanked by gabled wings. Tower has string
courses and crenellated parapet, bays divided by buttresses
topped with pinnacles, and conical slated spire. On the first
floor, 3 stone mullioned cross casements. Above, 3 cusped
headed triple lancets. Below, 3 single light mullioned windows
with transoms. Wings have on the first floor a 3-light cross
casement and above, a smaller 2-light casement window, all
with label moulds. Below, a canted bay window with crenellated
parapet and crest, the central light of the left one altered
to a French window. Lower range to left has on each floor a
stone mullioned cross casement. At the left corner, a 2 storey
round tower with buttresses, crenellated parapet and octagonal
spire. On the first floor, a 3-light stone mullioned cross
casement, flanked by single light transomed windows, all with
blind tracery. Below, two 2-light windows with central shaft,
divided by a buttress.
Left return has to right an entrance bay with a canted stone
oriel window on corbels and scroll brackets, with a hipped
roof. Crenellated parapet with stepped flat topped gable
containing a pointed arched recess with datestone. Stone
mullioned cross casement with stained glass. Below, chamfered
pointed arched doorway with fleurons, covering a narrow door
with overlight, flanked to left by a small casement.
To left, a hipped double bay with moulded string course with
central ogee arch and finial. 2 stone mullioned cross
casements. Below, a 5-light stone mullioned cross casement
with major mullions to the central light. Above it, a cusped
headed panel containing a rebus.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SK3334085336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456007
- 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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