Owlerton War Memorial Hall

OWLERTON WAR MEMORIAL HALL, FORBES ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254872
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
Owlerton War Memorial Hall
Statutory Address:
OWLERTON WAR MEMORIAL HALL, FORBES ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254872
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
Owlerton War Memorial Hall
Statutory Address 1:
OWLERTON WAR MEMORIAL HALL, FORBES ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
OWLERTON WAR MEMORIAL HALL, FORBES 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 33341 89514

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW FORBES ROAD
784-1/5/325 (West side)
Owlerton War Memorial Hall

GV II

War memorial hall. Dated 1925, with late C20 alterations. Red
brick with terracotta dressings and gabled and hipped slate
roof topped with a louvred square turret with pyramidal lead
roof.
EXTERIOR: plinth. Single storey plus tower; 3 x 5 windows.
Coped main gable has projecting central bay flanked by
panelled pilasters with quoins, containing a segment-arched
4-light cross casement with terracotta mullions. On either
side, a small plain sash with moulded surround and pediment.
Above the window, raised panel with the name of the building
in raised lettering. Above again, a shouldered gabled
pediment.
Single storey porch has projecting doorcase with panelled
terracotta quoins, dentilled cornice and segmental pediment
with shaped blocking course. Moulded and ornamented
round-arched doorway with keystone cartouche and recessed
double doors. To left, a canted corridor with blocking course
and 2 single light windows, late C20, with terracotta
surrounds.
To right, square clock tower, 3 stages, with angle pilasters
and quoins, corner shafts, plinth, and moulded coped parapet
with corner pedestals and a segmental pediment and keystone on
each side. Lower stage has a terracotta relief panel under a
dentilled cornice, with an inscribed bronze plaque below it.
Middle stage has a single window on 3 sides. Upper stage has a
recessed panel on each side, with dentilled head and round
shafted blind balustrade below. Front panel has a central
clock, side panels have blank roundels.
Hall has bays divided by recesses housing downpipes, and
stepped terracotta coping. In each bay, a segment-headed
3-light cross casement with double transoms and terracotta
lintel.
INTERIOR not inspected.


Listing NGR: SK3334189514


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 31 January 2017.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
458141
Legacy System:
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 31 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27513
War Memorials Online, accessed 31 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/148337

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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