Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3587SE SURREY STREET 784-1/25/704 (South West side) 01/05/52 Leader House and adjoining boundary wall

GV II

Includes: No.1 SURREY PLACE. 2 houses and adjoining boundary wall. Dated 1780, with early and mid C19 additions and C20 alterations. Built by the Duke of Norfolk for Vincent Eyre. Brick, the right return rendered and colourwashed, with ashlar dressings and slate roof with one brick and 2 rendered gable stacks. Plinth, chamfered quoins, wooden mutule eaves cornice, parapet with ramped coping. 3 storeys; 3 window range. Lower floors have 12 pane sashes, upper floor 6 pane sashes. These windows have multi-keystone lintels. To left, a set back mid C19 addition, 3 storeys, with 2 plain sashes on each floor with moulded architraves. Right return has to right a 2-storey rear wing. Three 12 pane sashes with multi-keystone lintels. Below, a central early C19 canted bay window with cornice and three 12 pane sashes. To left, a wooden Classical doorcase with Doric columns and open pediment, with beaded 6-panel door and fanlight. To right, a 12 pane sash. To right again, a mid C19 canted addition, single storey. To left, a moulded 6-panel door with overlight, and to right, two 12 pane sashes. INTERIOR not inspected. Outside, a curved brick boundary wall with plinth and moulded stone coping. Pair of square gate piers with caps. Occupied from the early C19 by the Leader family.

Listing NGR: SK3556787111

External Links

• Leader House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979033

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)