THE TOWERS

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:: THE TOWERS, 6, BRINCLIFFE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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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.