Loxley House (Royal Navy Training Ship Sheffield) And Adjoining Service Wing
LOXLEY HOUSE (ROYAL NAVY TRAINING SHIP SHEFFIELD) AND ADJOINING SERVICE WING, BEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271200
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Loxley House (Royal Navy Training Ship Sheffield) And Adjoining Service Wing
- Statutory Address:
- LOXLEY HOUSE (ROYAL NAVY TRAINING SHIP SHEFFIELD) AND ADJOINING SERVICE WING, BEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271200
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Loxley House (Royal Navy Training Ship Sheffield) And Adjoining Service Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOXLEY HOUSE (ROYAL NAVY TRAINING SHIP SHEFFIELD) AND ADJOINING SERVICE WING, BEN LANE
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:
- LOXLEY HOUSE (ROYAL NAVY TRAINING SHIP SHEFFIELD) AND ADJOINING SERVICE WING, BEN LANE
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 31591 90320
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK39SW BEN LANE, Wadsley 784-1/1/895 (North side (off)) 01/05/52 Loxley House (RN Training Ship Sheffield) and adjoining service wing (Formerly Listed as: BEN LANE Loxley House (with outbuildings))
II
Country house and adjoining service wing, now a Royal Navy Training Ship. Dated 1795 and 1826, with mid and late C20 alterations. Ashlar with hipped slate roof, with 2 coped ridge stacks and 2 side wall stacks. EXTERIOR: plinth, rusticated quoins, sill and impost bands, modillion eaves, balustrade. Mainly Venetian windows with glazing bar sashes and keystones. 3 storey main block, 3 windows, with set back 2 storey wings, single windows. The wings have single round-headed windows above. Balustraded square porch, now roofless, with corner pilasters and single Doric columns flanking the entrance. Single glazing bar light in each side. Fielded 6-panel door with sidelights and overlight. Rear wing, 2 storeys plus basement, has to east 3 round windows with glazing bars and keystones, the left one blocked, and to their right, set higher, a 3-light glazing bar casement. To right again, a close boarded door flanked by single round windows. Above, to left, a 3-light glazing bar casement and to right, 4 tall glazing bar casements. Below, to left, 2 fielded 6-panel doors and between them, three 3-light casements, 2 of them set in round-headed carriage arches. To right, a blocked door flanked by single 2-light mullioned windows and to right again, a fielded 6-panel door and a pair of segment-headed carriage doors. At the right end, an L-plan paved ramp to the first floor, with a stepped coped retaining wall to the slope and a spearhead railing to the shorter leg. West side has scattered fenestration including 3 round windows. INTERIOR has entrance hall with modillion cornice and open well cantilever stone stair with cast-iron fleur-de-lys balusters and mahogany handrail. Ground floor has fluted doorcases with cornices and first floor landing has a round-headed doorcase with hood on scroll brackets and cobweb fanlight. Right ground floor room has moulded cornice and a half-round domed recess. Inlaid limestone Classical fireplace. Other main rooms have enriched cornices, moulded doorcases and C19 marble fireplace. Service wing has segmental vaults throughout the basement and above. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 472).
Listing NGR: SK3159190320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455721
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 472
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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