Description

SK 38 NW SHEFFIELD LANGSETT ROAD
(North East side)
784-1/5/469
Mobilization store and squash
court to former Hillsborough
Barracks
12.12.95

GV II

Mobilization store, now offices, and adjoining squash court and retaining wall. 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, first floor sillband, half-round eaves, coped parapets. 2 storeys; 9 window range. Windows mainly unglazed and boarded at time of survey. Recessed centre has 5 windows, and below, central segmental pointed doorway with voussoirs, flanked by 2 windows. Slightly projecting end bays have 2 windows on each floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Adjoining roofless racquets court has blank enclosing walls with half-round coping. At the front, a section of curved retaining wall with half-round coping, approx 25m long. HISTORY : Ball courts were common recreational components of nineteenth century barracks. Part of a c9mplete mid C19 barracks. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 472; Skeleton record plan of ground floor: 1907 -1923).

Listing NGR: SK3372689490

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538928

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings