Upperthorpe Public Library
5, DANIEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247455
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Upperthorpe Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- 5, DANIEL HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247455
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Upperthorpe Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, DANIEL HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- UPPERTHORPE PUBLIC LIBRARY, UPPERTHORPE
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:
- 5, DANIEL HILL
- Statutory Address:
- UPPERTHORPE PUBLIC LIBRARY, UPPERTHORPE
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 34201 88283
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3488SW UPPERTHORPE 784-1/13/726 (North West side) Upperthorpe Public Library
II
Includes: No.5 DANIEL HILL. Public library. 1876, with late C20 alterations. By E Mitchell Gibbs. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative crest, coped gables and finials. Truncated square roof ventilator. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: plinth, sillbands, first floor band, modillion eaves, coped parapet. 2 storeys; 6 window range. Central square tower porch with hipped roof has on the first floor 2 round-arched 2-light windows with moulded arches and roundels in the heads. Below them, a stone balcony on brackets, with roundel-pierced balustrade. Moulded round-arched ashlar doorcase with coat of arms in tympanum, and above, lintel inscribed "Free Public Library Upperthorpe Branch". Late C20 glazed double doors, steps and ramp. Each return has a round-arched 2-light window above, and a stone mullioned cross casement below. Side bays have each 2 round-arched double lancets with moulded heads and roundels, and linked hoodmould. Below, 2 stone mullioned cross casements. Right gable has on the first floor a canted stone oriel window with hipped roof and modillion cornice. 2-light round-arched window flanked by similar single windows, each with a roundel above it. Beyond, single light round-arched windows with square panels above them containing roundels, all with linked label moulds. Above, a 2-light stone mullioned opening with louvres. Below, a segment-headed cross casement, flanked by integral brackets to the oriel. On either side, a single light flat-headed window with transom. To right, a plainer range, 2 storeys, with off-centre 3 storey gable and 7 unequally spaced windows. INTERIOR not inspected. The design is almost identical to Highfield Public Library, London Road (qv), also by E Mitchell Gibbs. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3420188283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456933
- 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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