Sheffield Hallam University Main Building
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY MAIN BUILDING, COLLEGIATE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270958
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield Hallam University Main Building
- Statutory Address:
- SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY MAIN BUILDING, COLLEGIATE CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270958
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield Hallam University Main Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY MAIN BUILDING, COLLEGIATE CRESCENT
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:
- SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY MAIN BUILDING, COLLEGIATE CRESCENT
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 33929 86288
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3386SE COLLEGIATE CRESCENT 784-1/33/217 (West side) Sheffield Hallam University Main Building
GV II
Collegiate school, now university main building. c1836, raised and extended in the same style 1911. By JG Weightman. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Tudor Revival style. Crosswise central hall flanked by 2 storey wings. EXTERIOR: plinth, ground floor sillband, crenellated parapets and coped gables. 2 storeys; 12 window range. Central hall has projecting crocketed gable to south, with flanking buttresses and coped octagonal finials. Traceried 4-light Perpendicular lancet with transom and hoodmould, flanked by single niches with crocketed finials. Below, 4-light mullioned and transomed casement, flanked by similar 2-light windows. Returns have similar 2-light windows above, and 3-light windows below. Plain coped north gable has gabled single bellcote. Lower right wing has central projection with crocketed gable and octagonal finials, with a 4-light cross mullioned window and below, a canted stone oriel window. To right, a 3-light cross mullioned window and below, a 3-light window. To left, similar fenestration, with 2 windows on each floor and a buttress between the ground floor windows. To right, a projecting block with projecting central gable and finials. Traceried Perpendicular triple lancet with side lights, flanked by single light windows in the side bays. Below, a 5-light mullioned window flanked by single light windows. Left wing is of the same design, with a segmental pointed doorway to left of the central gable. Right return, forming entrance front, has a 3-light mullioned window under a crocketed gable with finials. To left, a similar window. Central steps to pointed arched doorway with label mould and enriched spandrels, and above it, a mullioned overlight. On either side, a 3-light mullioned window. All these openings have label moulds. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SK3392986288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456645
- 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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