BOUNDARY WALL AND CORNER TOWERS SOUTH EAST SECTION TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS

BOUNDARY WALL AND CORNER TOWERS SOUTH EAST SECTION TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271328
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALL AND CORNER TOWERS SOUTH EAST SECTION TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALL AND CORNER TOWERS SOUTH EAST SECTION TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271328
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALL AND CORNER TOWERS SOUTH EAST SECTION TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY WALL AND CORNER TOWERS SOUTH EAST SECTION TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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

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Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALL AND CORNER TOWERS SOUTH EAST SECTION TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD

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District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 33711 89446

Details

SK 38 NW SHEFFIELD LANGSETT ROAD (North East side) 784-1/5/471 Boundary wall and corner towers SE section to former Hillsborough Barracks 12/12/95

GV II

Boundary wall and comer towers to former barracks, with remains of adjoining service buildings. 1848-54, with mid and late C20 alterations. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Slightly battered wall with half-round coping. At the west end, adjoining the Langsett Road entrance, an octagonal crenellated tower, 2 storeys, with rifle slits on each floor. T o east, a rectangular projection enclosing the barrack store, with a similar tower in the centre of the long side. Approx 300m long. On the inner side, remains of single storey service buildings, some partly demolished. Towers contain stone spiral stairs. HISTOR Y: Built as a defensible barracks due to anxiety over civil unrest. One of the earliest instances of historicist barracks style, following the contextual Tower of London Barracks, (1845). Despite conversion, much of the original site survives, including barracks, stables, magazine and guard house (qqv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 472; Skeleton record plan of ground floor: 1907-1923).

Listing NGR: SK3371189446

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Legacy System number:: 455295
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 472

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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.