Imperial Buildings
IMPERIAL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261735
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Imperial Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- IMPERIAL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261735
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Imperial Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- IMPERIAL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
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:
- IMPERIAL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK4281192808
Details
The following shall be added:
SK 49 SW HIGH STREET
(west side)
9/61 Imperial Buildings
GV II
Shop and office building with internal shopping arcade. 1907. In the Jacobean
Revival style. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs and 16 ornate
brick stacks. Eastern, High Street, front 3-storey, 5-bay central section,
flanked by curved tripartite bays with to the north 2 bays and to the south
1 1/2 bays. Central doorway to offices above, with flanking marble pilasters
supporting brackets and a segmental arched hood, topped by a balustrade with
finials, tympanum below inscribed 'IMPERIAL BUILDINGS AD 1907'. Either side
are shops divided by tall marble pilasters, ,some shops such as Brooks and
Brooks, and Victoria Wine retain almost complete Edwardian shopfronts. Above
both floors are articulated with pairs of Doric pilasters supporting an
entablature, and topped by a parapet. The first floor has tripartite windows
with small pediments. The top floor has tripartite windows with segment headed
moulded surrounds with keystones, and blind balustrades below. The final bay
on each end is topped by a broken curved pediment with finials and an obelisk.
The remaining fronts are 2-storey. The 5-bay, west front, has a central arcade
entrance flanked by 2 shops, with dividing marble pilasters, and then
tripartite curved corner bays, each a single shop. The 4-bay, north and south
fronts each have 2 shops, an arcade entrance and a further shop beyond. Almost
all these shops retain their Edwardian shopfronts. Above, these 3 fronts are
articulated with pairs of Doric pilasters, with between tripartite windows in
segment headed moulded surrounds with keystones. The curved corners are topped
with ornate gables, and the arcade entrances are topped by pediments, linked
together by an arcaded balustrade with ball finials. The internal arcade has
a glazed iron roof, and shopfronts topped by curved pediments, plus a central
wooden kiosk also topped with curved pediments, an open arcade and ball
finials.
Listing NGR: SK4281192808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382396
- 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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