Sheffield High School For Girls
SHEFFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, 10, RUTLAND PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247146
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield High School For Girls
- Statutory Address:
- SHEFFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, 10, RUTLAND PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247146
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield High School For Girls
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEFFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, 10, RUTLAND PARK
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:
- SHEFFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, 10, RUTLAND PARK
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 33468 86564
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3386NW RUTLAND PARK 784-1/26/636 (North side) No.10 Sheffield High School for Girls
GV II
Girls' High School. Dated 1884, with mid C20 additions and alterations. By Tanner & Smith of London. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs with decorative ridge tiles. Tudor Revival style with Arts-and-Crafts detailing. EXTERIOR: central block, 3 storeys plus attics; 9 window range. Plinth and moulded eaves. Front is divided into 3 recessed panels with modillion heads, and is topped by 3 close-studded gables. 3 large coped stacks to the front, plus single gable stack to right. In each bay, three 12-pane sashes with top lights on each floor. Gables have single 2-light casements. Ground floor has double chamfered segment-headed openings. In the centre bay, a half-glazed door with side and top lights, flanked to left by a 3-light wooden framed cross casement. In the side bays, 2 similar windows. Lower, set back bay to left has a stone mullioned 3-light cross casement on the lower floors, and above, a single light window. Left return has to right a coped gable with traceried head and first floor band inscribed "Sheffield High School for Girls". Canted 2-storey porch with hipped roof and 6-pane window, with battered plinth containing a single light window. To right, an adjoining hipped canopy to a stone external stair, with wooden brackets above the entrance. Stone ground floor with corner buttress and single window, close-studded upper stage with a 3-light casement. Above the porch, two 2-light stone mullioned cross casements. Lower set back right wing, 3 storeys; 2 window range. Single gable stack. On each floor, two 12-pane sashes, the upper ones with top lights. To right again, lower 3 storey block with irregular fenestration. Right return has 2 semicircular 5-light bow windows to the library on the second floor, and ranges of smaller windows below. Large mid C20 additions to right. INTERIOR not inspected. A largely intact example of a school built following the establishment of the Girls' Public Day School Trust in 1872, in a representative architectural style.
Listing NGR: SK3346886564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456381
- 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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