HIGHFIELD LIBRARY AND ADJOINING LIBRARIANS HOUSE

HIGHFIELD LIBRARY AND ADJOINING LIBRARIANS HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271315
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: HIGHFIELD LIBRARY AND ADJOINING LIBRARIANS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HIGHFIELD LIBRARY AND ADJOINING LIBRARIANS HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271315
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: HIGHFIELD LIBRARY AND ADJOINING LIBRARIANS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHFIELD LIBRARY AND ADJOINING LIBRARIANS HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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

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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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Statutory Address:: HIGHFIELD LIBRARY AND ADJOINING LIBRARIANS HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 35053 85688

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE LONDON ROAD 784-1/6/482 (East side) Highfield Library and adjoining librarian's house

GV II

Includes: Nos.20 AND 22 ST BARNABAS ROAD. Public library and adjoining librarian's house, now advice centre. 1876, with late C20 alterations. By E Mitchell Gibbs. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs, the main roof topped with a truncated square turret. Italianate style. T-plan. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor and sillbands, first floor impost band, modillion eaves cornice, coped parapet and gables with finials. 2 storeys; 6 window range. Square 2 storey central porch with pyramidal roof and finial. 2 round-arched double windows with roundels in tympanums, and hoodmoulds. Ashlar doorcase with figure brackets carrying a cornice topped with a pierced balustrade forming a balcony. Round-arched recess framing C20 double doors, with inscription on lintel and quotation from Carlyle in the tympanum. Each return has on the first floor a round-arched double window with central shaft and a roundel in the tympanum. Below, a stone mullioned cross casement. Beyond, on either side, 2 round-arched double windows with central shafts, and roundels above. Below, 2 stone mullioned cross casements. Left return gable has a canted ashlar oriel window carried on a massive bracket with segmental arch, with modillion eaves and hipped roof behind blocking course. Double window with roundel above, flanked by single lights, also with roundels. Beyond, on either side, a similar single light with roundel. All these lights have round heads. Below, a cross casement with flush mullion, and on either side, a single flat-headed light with transom. Beyond, to left, former librarian's house, now advice centre. 2 storeys plus attics; 3 window range. Plinth, first floor sillband, string course, eaves band, coped gables with kneelers, single gable stack. Openings have raised stone surrounds. 3 plain sashes and above, to right, a gable with a smaller plain sash. Central half-glazed door with overlight, flanked to left by a plain sash and to right by a canted stone bay window with 3 plain sashes and hipped roof. To right , a single storey link with a coped gable and finial. Stone mullioned cross casement with raised surround under stepped string course. Right return gable has a square 2 storey bay window with modillion eaves and hipped roof. Blank front, with a single round-arched light and roundel in each return. Below, in each return, a single flat-headed light with transom. In each gable peak, a 2-light louvred opening with flush mullion. Rear has 6 wooden framed round-arched windows. INTERIOR refitted late C20. The design is almost identical to Upperthorpe Public Library (qv), also by E Mitchell Gibbs.

Listing NGR: SK3505385688

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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.