Sheffield United Gas Light Company Offices
19, SHUDE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270948
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield United Gas Light Company Offices
- Statutory Address:
- 19, SHUDE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270948
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield United Gas Light Company Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19, SHUDE HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHEFFIELD UNITED GAS LIGHT COMPANY OFFICES, COMMERCIAL 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:
- 19, SHUDE HILL
- Statutory Address:
- SHEFFIELD UNITED GAS LIGHT COMPANY OFFICES, COMMERCIAL 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 35824 87518
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3587NE COMMERCIAL STREET 784-1/20/221 (North side) 28/06/73 Sheffield United Gas Light Co. offices
II*
Includes: No.19 SHUDE HILL. Offices. 1875, with addition dated 1890, restored and subdivided 1989. By ME Hadfield & Son, with domed General Office by JF Bentley, carving by Thomas Earp, and Board Room ceiling by Hugh Stannus. For the Sheffield United Gas Light Company. Ashlar and brick with slate mansard roof and 2 coped ridge and 3 side wall stacks. Italian Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: intermediate and dentilled main cornices with breaks, low coped parapet with pedestals and square corner pinnacles topped with spires. 2 storeys plus attics; 7 x 6 windows. Front has round-arched windows, unglazed at time of survey. First floor has 3 central bays divided by paired granite Corinthian columns, and the outer bays articulated by paired Corinthian pilasters. Central window has paired flanking pilasters supporting a segmental pediment. On either side, 2 windows with gabled pediments, then single windows with segmental pediments. Above, large central dormer with dentilled pediment containing crest, and 3 small windows divided by pilasters. On either side, 3 single light dormers with segmental pediments. Ground floor, articulated in the same way as the first floor, has rusticated quoins and 6 windows, the central and outer ones with panelled surrounds. All the windows have their openings deepened at the foot. In the sixth bay, a round-arched doorway with steps, flanked by Atlantes on pedestals, supporting a segmental pediment. Right return, 2 windows, has similar fenestration. Rusticated 2 storey basement with 2 segmental pedimented windows, the left one altered to a door, and above them, 2 plain windows. To right, a lower block, single storey above 2 storey basement, with panelled attic. 4 round-arched windows. Basement has 4 segmental pedimented windows, the right one altered to a door, and above them, 4 plain windows. To right again, addition dated 1890, brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 3 storeys plus basement; 16 window range, the bays divided by brick pilasters. Regular fenestration, with segment-headed first floor windows and round-arched windows above, all with keystones. Painted ground floor has central segment-arched door flanked by 6 segment-headed windows. Single entrance bay, to left, has a round-arched window on each floor and below, a segment-arched cart opening. INTERIOR is said to contain glazed dome to General Office, and important decorative works by Earp and Stannus. In course of restoration with windows mainly unglazed at time of survey. (150 Years of Architectural Drawing: Hadfield, Cawkwell, Davidson: Sheffield: 1984-: 63).
Listing NGR: SK3582487518
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456676
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, Cawkwell, Davidson, , 150 Years of Architectural Drawing, (1984), 63
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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