Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3587SW HIGH STREET 784-1/24/427 (South East side) 26/06/89 Nos.8-24 (Even)

GV II

5 shops with offices above. 1897, with late C20 alterations. Built as a single shop for William Fosters & Sons Ltd., Gents Outfitters. By Flockton, Gibbs & Flockton of Sheffield. Huddersfield sandstone ashlar with similar dressings and steep pitched slate roof. 2 gable and 4 ridge grouped ashlar stacks. French Domestic Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus attics; 15 window range. Windows are plain sashes. To left, 2 windows, then a deeply set 4-light round-headed window with tracery, above the office entrance. To right, a triple window flanked on each side by 5 windows, and beyond, to right, another triple window. All the single windows have moulded surrounds and segment heads with tracery. Triple windows have plain flat heads. Above, to the left, 2 windows, then a canted bay window. To right, a similar canted bay window flanked on either side by 5 windows and beyond, to right, another canted bay window. The single windows have moulded surrounds and ogee heads with tracery. The bay windows have 3 lights with similar heads. The third floor has similar fenestration with moulded flat-headed windows with tracery. Above, an eaves band with shields and flower heads, and a pierced parapet with Gothic tracery. Above again, a central crocketed dormer with finial and a plain sash, flanked on either side by 2 smaller plain sash dormers alternating with 3 tiny dormers. To right, another larger dormer with a plain sash and a tourelle with a spire. To left, a large dormer above the office entrance, with 3 windows and flanking tourelles with spires. To its left, one small and one tiny dormer. Above and behind the entrance dormer, a square elevator tower with corbel tables, tracery decoration and pierced parapet. Ground floor has 5 late C20 shopfronts. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3549487432

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