Guardroom and Adjoining Wall and Towers to Former Hillsborough Barracks
GUARDROOM AND ADJOINING WALL AND TOWERS TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271329
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Guardroom and Adjoining Wall and Towers to Former Hillsborough Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- GUARDROOM AND ADJOINING WALL AND TOWERS TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271329
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Guardroom and Adjoining Wall and Towers to Former Hillsborough Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUARDROOM AND ADJOINING WALL AND TOWERS TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT ROAD
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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.
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:
- GUARDROOM AND ADJOINING WALL AND TOWERS TO FORMER HILLSBOROUGH BARRACKS, LANGSETT 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 33776 89557
Details
SK 38 NW SHEFFIELD LANGSETT ROAD
(North East side)
784-1/5/466
Guardroom & adjoining wall &
12.12.1995 towers to former Hillsborough
Barracks
GV II
Guardroom, now restaurant, and adjoining boundary wall and towers. 1848-54, used as industrial workshops mid C20, converted 1990. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof with 2 coped ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: Plinth, half-round eaves, coped parapets. 2 storeys; 6 window range. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes. Front has 6 windows and below, a full-width loggia and balcony with 6 segmental pointed arches and square piers. Coped parapet. Under the loggia, to left, a window flanked by double doors with overlights, and to right, 2 windows and a similar door. Left return has a barred round-headed window above and a blocked door below. Rear has 6 segment-headed cell windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Adjoining section of boundary wall, to south-east, has half-round coping. Approx 75m long. At each end, an octagonal crenellated comer tower, 2 storeys, with rifle slits on each floor. Towers contain stone spiral staircases. Attached to the inner face, a similar wall enclosing the guard room yard and storage buildings. Beyond, to north, a lower boundary wall, approx 50m long. HISTORY: The perimeter wall shows the defensible nature of the barracks, built in response to anxiety over civil unrest. One of the earliest instances of historicist, castellated barracks style, following its contextual use at the. Tower of London (1845). Despite conversion, much of the original site survives including the officers' quarters and barracks, stables and riding school, hospital 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: SK3377689557
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 455298
- 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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