Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38SW ECCLESALL ROAD SOUTH 784-1/9/300 (South East side) Parkhead Hall and adjoining former stable yard and coach house

II

Small country house and adjoining stable yard and coach house, now offices. 1864-65. By JB Mitchel Withers, for himself. Enlarged 1900 by RG Hammond and 1903 by Wyngard, Dixon & Sandford for Sir Robert Hadfield, steel manufacturer. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped plain tile roofs, with 3 ridge and 3 side wall coped stone stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor windows. Windows are mainly casements with stone mullions. East front has projecting central 2 storey porch, with hipped roof and decorative finials. On the first floor, a 2-light pointed arch window with plate tracery, flanked by smaller single lancets with plainer tracery. Triple arched entrance with moulded arches, shafts, and linked hoodmoulds. Larger central opening has glazed double door with fanlight, flanking arches have single windows. Outside, stone steps. To left, a small single lancet, and to its left, a buttressed external stack, flanked by allegorical reliefs in square panels. To left again, a canted corner with a single lancet above and a cross casement below. To right, a pointed arched recess with double lancet flanked by relief panels, and below, a 3-light cross casement. Garden front, to south, has 2 bay addition to left in similar style. At each end, a canted 2 storey bay window topped with a finial. Right bay has a segmental pointed 3-light window flanked by single lancets, with linked hoodmould. Below, a 3-light cross casement, flanked by 2-light cross casements. Left bay has a flat-headed 3-light window with label mould, flanked by single light windows. Below, a 3-light cross casement flanked by a 2-light cross casement to left and a similar window altered to a French window to right. At the rear, a small stable yard, enclosed by a coped wall with a central segmental pointed carriage gateway with shouldered coped gable. To right, a single coach house with truncated pyramidal roof. INTERIOR not inspected. Building vacant at time of survey. (Researches of G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3189983224

External Links

• Parkhead Hall at Wikipedia
• Parkhead Hall official website
• Wikidata Q7138485

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