Nether Edge Hospital, Kingswood Building
NETHER EDGE HOSPITAL, KINGSWOOD BUILDING, UNION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270877
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Edge Hospital, Kingswood Building
- Statutory Address:
- NETHER EDGE HOSPITAL, KINGSWOOD BUILDING, UNION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270877
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Edge Hospital, Kingswood Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- NETHER EDGE HOSPITAL, KINGSWOOD BUILDING, UNION 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.
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:
- NETHER EDGE HOSPITAL, KINGSWOOD BUILDING, UNION 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 33732 84937
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38SW UNION ROAD 784-1/9/719 (West side) Nether Edge Hospital, Kingswood Building
GV II
Workhouse, now administration building at Nether Edge Hospital. 1842-43, with later C19 additions and late C20 alterations. By William Flockton. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs with various coped stone stacks. Tudor Revival style. H-plan. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, moulded eaves, coped gables. 2 and 3 storeys; 25 window range. Windows are mainly mullion windows with pointed lights in chamfered surrounds with flat heads. Projecting central block has a recessed entrance bay topped with a shouldered dormer containing a clock. On the upper floors, a 2-light window flanked by single windows. Central moulded ashlar doorcase with segment-arched opening and half-glazed double doors, flanked by single windows. Projecting flanking wings have shouldered gables. 2 storey canted bay windows with coped parapets, and a 4-light window on each floor. Above, a smaller 4-light window, and in the gable, a square panel. Beyond, on either side, a flat-roofed wing, 2 storeys, with angle buttresses and coped parapet. Two 2-light windows on each floor. Beyond again, at the rear of flanking courtyards, set back wings, 3 storeys; 7 window range. Three 2-light windows flanked by single windows on the upper floors. Below, roofless arcades with elliptical arches and crenellated parapet with bosses. At each end, projecting wings, 3 storeys, with shouldered coped gables. On each floor, a 4-light window. Left wing return, 7 windows, has to the rear a range of single storey buildings, L-plan. Right wing return has a 3 storey addition in the same style. INTERIOR has entrance hall with moulded cornice and quatrefoil cast-iron columns. This building was originally built as the Ecclesall Union Workhouse.
Listing NGR: SK3373284937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456927
- 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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