KING EDWARD VII ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL

KING EDWARD VII ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, RIVELIN VALLEY ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247137
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: KING EDWARD VII ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: KING EDWARD VII ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, RIVELIN VALLEY ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-01-25
Reference:: IOE01/03390/32
Rights:: © Mrs Barbara A West. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247137
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: KING EDWARD VII ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: KING EDWARD VII ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, RIVELIN VALLEY 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KING EDWARD VII ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, RIVELIN VALLEY 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:: SK2958287495

Details

SK28NE 784-1/4/622 28/06/73

SHEFFIELD RIVELIN VALLEY ROAD (North side) King Edward VII Orthopaedic Hospital

GV II

Orthopaedic hospital. 1913, with mid and late C20 alterations. By AW Kenyon. Coursed squared stone with hipped pantile roofs. 2 large ridge, side wall and rear wall coped stacks. Neo-Georgian style. EXTERIOR: moulded plinth, string course, sillband and moulded eaves. Central block flanked by wings in 2 steps. At either end, a pavilion at right angles. Beyond, at either end, V-plan loggias. Central block, 3 storey plus attics; 5 window range. 20-pane sashes with cornices and above, 12 pane sashes. Above again, box dormers with 16 pane sashes. Central pedimented doorcase flanked by two 20 pane sashes with keystones. Returns have 2 ground floor windows and 2 dormers, with single windows to intermediate floors. At the rear, a single storey kitchen, 6 x 6 windows, with 3 ridge stacks. 2 storey wings have three 20 pane sashes on each floor. Slightly projecting outer wings, single storey plus attics, have 5 French windows, the central one corniced, and 5 box dormers. Pavilions have arcades of paired Doric columns covering 3 C20 windows flanked by single French windows. At the rear, five 20-pane sashes. Beyond, at either end, a mid C20 covered corridor to a pair of loggias arranged in V-formation, with Doric colonnades. The openings of the right loggia have mid C20 infill panels and glazing. INTERIOR has pilastered entrance hall with coved panelled ceiling. At the rear, a 3-bay Doric arcade of marbled wooden piers with 3 fanlights above. Facing the entrance, a shell headed niche. Large reeded stone fireplace. 4 high relief panels of symbolic figures. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 464).

Listing NGR: SK2958287495

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 456286
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 464

Legal

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