GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS

GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247257
Date first listed:: 01-May-1952
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD

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Date:: 2001-04-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247257
Date first listed:: 01-May-1952
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS, CLARKEHOUSE 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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS, CLARKEHOUSE 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:: SK 33488 86378

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK3386SW CLARKEHOUSE ROAD 784-1/32/195 (South East side) 01/05/52 Gateway to Botanical Gardens, with lodges, screen wall and railing

GV II

Gateway with lodges, screen wall and railing. c1836 and late C19, restored 1990. Probably by BB Taylor. Ashlar with stone slate roofs. 2 stone side wall stacks. Classical style. Plinth, corner pilasters, cornices, blocking courses. Round-arched barrel vaulted entrance with keystone, flanked on each side by a pair of giant Ionic columns, the frieze inscribed "Botanical Gardens", the entablature crowned by modelled blocking course. Under the arch, ornamental cast-iron gates, and a corniced half-glazed door on each side. On either side, blank rear walls of the lodges. Fronts have 2 windows. Concave curved flanking wall on each side, with square piers, entablature and blocking course. Beyond, to right, a scrolled wrought-iron railing on chamfered plinth, approx 200m long. At the south-west corner, a wrought-iron caged turnstile. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 465).

Listing NGR: SK3348886378

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Legacy System number:: 456596
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 465

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