FORMER SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH AND STAR BUILDING

FORMER SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH AND STAR BUILDING, 13-23, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270478
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH AND STAR BUILDING
Statutory Address:: FORMER SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH AND STAR BUILDING, 13-23, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270478
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH AND STAR BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH AND STAR BUILDING, 13-23, HIGH STREET

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:: FORMER SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH AND STAR BUILDING, 13-23, HIGH STREET

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 35501 87472

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK3587SW HIGH STREET 784-1/24/428 (North West side) 16/08/94 Nos.13-23 (odd) Former Sheffield Telegraph and Star building

GV II

Formerly known as: Kemsley House HIGH STREET. Newspaper offices, now offices and shops. 1916, restored c1985. By Gibbs, Flockton & Teather. For the Sheffield Telegraph and Star. Faience front, now painted. Roofs not visible. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 5 window range. Windows are mainly metal framed glazing bar casements. Central block has the first floor divided by pilasters with festoons under a dentilled cornice with breaks. Three 3-light windows divided by Doric columns under heavily moulded transoms. Above them, segment-headed Diocletian windows with shaped keystones and roundels in the spandrels. Narrower end bays have a single window with moulded lintel and cornice, and above it, a single smaller window with moulded surround. Returns have a similar 3-light window with common moulded cornice and central segmental pediment. Above it, a flat-headed 3-light window with central scroll keystone. Attic has recessed central and outer bays defined by pilasters under a moulded cornice and blocking course. In the projecting bays, a 3-light flat-headed window. Each return has a small 6-pane window. Above again, central square lantern with diagonal buttresses and festoons, and dentilled cornice with corner breaks. On each side, a 3-light window divided by Doric columns. Concave sided leaded tent roof with a clock dial on each side. Above a moulded cornice, a square leaded dome with finial. Ground floor has 5 large segment-arched opening with scroll keystones under a moulded cornice. Each has a late C20 shopfront under a glazing bar Diocletian window. Left return, to York Street, has to left a low 2 storey block with 5 similar smaller arched openings under a moulded cornice. Higher fifth bay has on the first floor a single window with scroll keystone and pediment. To right, a narrower bay with a round window above and an altered window below. Canted corner has three 3-light windows and below, a late C20 entrance. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 455).

Listing NGR: SK3550187472

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Legacy System number:: 458678
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 455

Legal

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