HERITAGE HOUSE

HERITAGE HOUSE, INFIRMARY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1270452
Date first listed:: 08-Sep-1970
List Entry Name:: HERITAGE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HERITAGE HOUSE, INFIRMARY ROAD

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Date:: 2002-10-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1270452
Date first listed:: 08-Sep-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: HERITAGE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HERITAGE HOUSE, INFIRMARY 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:: HERITAGE HOUSE, INFIRMARY 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 34492 88247

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK3488SW INFIRMARY ROAD 784-1/13/447 (South side) 08/09/70 Heritage House (Formerly Listed as: INFIRMARY ROAD Royal Infirmary (original block with south-east and south-west wings))

GV II*

Infirmary, now offices. 1793-97. By John Rawsthorne. South-east return wing in the same style, 1883-84. By John Dodsley Webster. Restored and with alterations c1988. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with 5 truncated ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: ground and first floor sillbands, string course, cornice and blocking course. 3 storeys plus basements; 13 x 13 windows. Windows are mainly 12 pane sashes. Slightly projecting centre, 3 windows, with pediment containing clock. Central window with moulded surround and cornice on brackets. On either side, wings with 4 windows. Projecting hipped end pavilions with 3 storey bow windows with lead semi-domes. Central windows have moulded surrounds and cornices on brackets. Second floor windows are 6-pane sashes. Ground floor has central 4 columned Doric portico with dentilled cornice, covering a glazed door with overlight, flanked by niches with figures. On either side, a round-headed recess with a sash. Beyond, on either side, 4 similar recesses with sashes. Bow windows have pedimented central windows flanked by single sashes. Return wing, to left, has a centre projecting in 2 steps, with pediment and parapet. Central first floor window has pediment on scroll brackets. Central second floor window is a tripartite sash. All the windows in the centre have moulded surrounds. Flanking wings have four 12 pane sashes. 4 column Doric portico has cornice and shaped blocking course. Ground floor has on either side 4 round-headed recesses, each with a 12 pane sash. Right return has 4 windows on each floor, the ground floor windows in round-headed recesses. Main block rear elevation is similar to the front, with pediment containing clock. Central first floor window has bracketed cornice and smaller splayed flanking lights. 4 column Doric portico with plain cornice, with C20 glazed double door and overlight. On either side, a 12 pane sash in a round-headed recess. Wings have four 12 pane sashes on each floor. Right return has projecting central block, 5 windows, with heavy cornice and coped parapet. On the first and second floors, two 12 pane sashes, then 2 small sashes, then another 12 pane sash. 4 column Doric portico with cornice and C20 glazed doors, with a single 12 pane sash in each side. Returns have a single small window on each floor. Wings have four 12 pane sashes on each floor. Right end has a tripartite sash on each floor, the first floor one pedimented, the second floor with a gabled surround, the ground floor one with a cornice and Doric piers in antis. Left return has 2 windows on each floor. Left end has a tripartite sash on the first floor with a pediment, and on the second floor a Venetian window. Ground floor has a tripartite sash in a round-headed recess. INTERIOR: main range has vaulted entrance hall with 2 Doric columns to inner hall. Barrel vaulted lengthwise corridor has pilastered walls and corniced doorcases. At either end, a round stairwell with cantilevered oval winder stone stair with iron stick balusters and ramped scrolled handrail.

Listing NGR: SK3444088232

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Legacy System number:: 458828
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.