Queens Tower
QUEENS TOWER, PARK GRANGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271164
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Queens Tower
- Statutory Address:
- QUEENS TOWER, PARK GRANGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271164
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Queens Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEENS TOWER, PARK GRANGE 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:
- QUEENS TOWER, PARK GRANGE 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 36214 85841
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE PARK GRANGE ROAD 784-1/6/575 (South side (off)) 28/06/73 Queen's Tower
GV II
House. 1839. For Samuel Roberts. Enlarged 1855 for the Duke of Norfolk. Ashlar with slate roofs. Crenellated Gothic style. Square plan with attached ornamental gateway and octagonal turret and corner tower. EXTERIOR: moulded and chamfered plinth, string courses, crenellated parapets. Lancet windows, mainly with transoms. 2 storeys; 3 window range. South entrance front has a 2-light and a 4-light window and a canted crenellated porch with a 4 centred arched doorway under flat hood with Latin inscription and curved brackets. Porch has traceried vault and walls. To left, a recessed bay with a single blocked window and below, a square crenellated projection. North front has in the centre a 3-light window above and a 4-light one below. To left, a machicolated stair turret, 3 stages. To its left, an elliptical arched gateway with octagonal flanking turrets with ogee domes and finials. Above the gateway, a 7-light traceried panel under a square shouldered gable. On either side, a link wall with a niche above and a blank window below. To left, a single stage machicolated octagonal turret. To right, a 3 stage octagonal tower with machicolations and an external octagonal side wall stack. Third stage has a 2-light window. West front has to left a face of this tower with a canted crenellated bay window with three 3-light windows. Above, a French window and above again, a 3-light window. In the centre, a 4-light window and below, a canted crenellated 3-light bay window. To right, a square projection with double octagonal side wall stack. Smaller canted 2-storey bay window with single lights above and cusped lancets below, with traceried panels over them. East side has plain parapet, triple side wall stack, and a 2-light and a 3-light window on each floor. INTERIOR is reputed to contain a curved stone stair and late C19 decoration. HISTORICAL NOTE: Samuel Roberts Snr. was a silver plate manufacturer and incidentally an antiquarian, and an enthusiast for Mary Queen of Scots. This may well account for the building's name and style. His son, Samuel Jnr., occupied the house 1839-1887. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 467; Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3622785880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455894
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 467
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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