HILLSBOROUGH HALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL

HILLSBOROUGH HALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL, MIDDLEWOOD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271238
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: HILLSBOROUGH HALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: HILLSBOROUGH HALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL, MIDDLEWOOD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271238
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: HILLSBOROUGH HALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: HILLSBOROUGH HALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL, MIDDLEWOOD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HILLSBOROUGH HALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL, MIDDLEWOOD 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 33163 90126

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK39SW MIDDLEWOOD ROAD 784-1/1/517 (East side (off)) 28/06/73 Hillsborough Hall Public Library and adjoining boundary wall

GV II

Country house, now public library and adjoining boundary wall. Late C18, with mid and late C20 additions and alterations. Ashlar and brick, with hipped artificial slate roof with 3 coped ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor and sillbands, modillion eaves cornice. 3 storeys; 5 x 3 windows. South front has a central canted full height bay window with a pedimented 12 pane sash with balustraded apron, flanked by similar sashes with cornices. Beyond, on either side, two 12 pane sashes. Above, seven 6 pane sashes, the central one with moulded surround and bracketed sill. On the ground floor, a French window with moulded surround and cornice, flanked by single plain sashes with cornices and beyond, on either side, 2 plain sashes, the left one boarded up. Western entrance front has a round-headed recess containing a Venetian window, flanked to left by a plain sash and to right by a margin light sash. Above, three 8 pane sashes, the right one blank. On the ground floor, a moulded doorcase with cornice, flanked by a 16 pane sash to left and a margin light sash to right. To left, a mid C20 addition, rendered with slate roof. Single storey, 5 windows, with pilasters between. To left again, a single bay flat-roofed addition. East side has a central 12 pane sash with moulded surround and cornice, flanked by single smaller sashes. Above, three 6 pane sashes. Ground floor has a C20 single storey full width addition, brick and ashlar, with parapet and pilasters. Central round-headed French window with fanlight. Rear has a tall round-headed stair window. INTERIOR has entrance hall with enriched modillion cornice and wooden open well stair with landings. Cut string, vase and stem balusters. Several fielded 6-panel doors with moulded surrounds. Outside, at the rear, adjoining curved boundary wall approx 70m long. Brick, with stone plinth to right, slab coping and 2 square gate piers.

Listing NGR: SK3316390126

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Legacy System number:: 455679
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.