Jessop Hospital For Women
JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246527
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Jessop Hospital For Women
- Statutory Address:
- JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246527
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Jessop Hospital For Women
- Statutory Address 1:
- JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE ROAD
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:
- JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, LEAVY GREAVE 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:
- SK3452287287
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3487SE LEAVY GREAVE ROAD
784-1/23/473 (North side)
Jessop Hospital for Women
GV II
Womens' hospital. 1878, by John Dodsley Webster. For Thomas
Jessop. Addition to west 1902, in a sympathetic style. Gothic
Revival style. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and
hipped slate roofs with various coped brick stacks. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands, machicolated eaves,
coped gables. 3 storeys; 8 window range. Windows are mainly
transomed or cross mullioned, with stone mullions.
Entrance front has central range, 5 windows, flanked by gabled
wings. Slightly projecting central entrance bay topped by a
single stage tower with cornice and plain parapet, and 2
single lancet openings on each side, with hoodmoulds. On the
first floor, 3 cross casements flanked by single light
windows. Above, similar fenestration, with an ogee crest to
the central window. Below, round-arched entrance with double
doors, inscribed lintel, label mould and crest. On either
side, a cross casement, then a single light window, with label
moulds and crests.
Left gable has a cross casement and above, a taller cross
casement with traceried ogee head and finial. Below, a square
bay window with 3-light cross casement.
Right gable has 2 cross casements and above, 2 similar windows
with traceried ogee heads and between them, a roundel. Below,
two 3-light cross casements with label moulds and finials.
Right return, 3 windows, has a central projecting gabled bay
and to left, a 2 storey square oriel window at the corner,
topped with a pyramidal spire.
Left return has 2 canted 3 storey bay windows, the left one
with a large C20 flat-roofed bay window.
West front has to right an entrance block, 3 storeys plus
attics, with 2 windows in the centre flanked by gabled wings.
On the ground floor, a single storey central porch with
parapet. To left, a lower block with coped parapet and central
projecting bay with 3 storey canted bay window topped with a
balustrade. On either side, 2 windows. At the left corner, a 2
storey square oriel window topped with a pyramidal spire. Left
return has a canted 3 storey bay window to left, topped with a
balustrade, and 2 windows to right.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SK3452287287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455344
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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