Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW GRAHAM ROAD
784-1/5/386 (South side)
28/06/73 Riverdale House and adjoining
outbuilding and walls
(Formerly Listed as:
RIVERDALE ROAD
Riverdale)

II

House, now offices. c1860. Rock-faced stone with ashlar
dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with fish scale
bands and finials. 2 external gable stacks, one with coped
double octagonal shafts, and external side wall stack in the
form of a buttress. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: moulded plinth, string course, traceried arch braced
bargeboards in various patterns. 2 storeys plus garrets; 5
bays. Central projecting gable with 2-light window in
segmental pointed surround, with central shaft. Below, a half
hipped porte-cochere with iron crest to flat roof, and grouped
wooden posts with shaped braces. Beneath it, a 2-leaf glazed
door with sidelights and overlight. To left of the central
gable, a 2 storey transomed double lancet stair window with 2
small single lights below it. To right, a double and a single
lancet and above, a through-eaves dormer with a single lancet.
Below, a double and a single plain sash. Beyond, on each side,
a gabled wing, the left one larger and blind, the right one
with 2 plain sashes to the second floor. Both have external
stacks. Left return has to right a 2 storey canted hipped by
window with 3 plain sashes above and 3 lancets below. To left,
a balustraded extruded corner with 3 plain sashes and below, a
half-glazed door with stone traceried fanlight. Above, to
right, a plain sash and a single lancet.
Garden front has in the centre a through-eaves dormer with a
triple sash, flanked to left by a lancet and to right by a
plain sash. Below, to left, a large buttress, flanked to left
by a sash and to right by 2 double lancets. Smaller left gable
has a buttress carrying a canted stone oriel window with
hipped roof and crest. Above it, a double sash. Right gable
has a canted hipped 2 storey bay window with crest. 3 plain
sashes above, 3 lancets below. Above it, a single lancet.
Rear has adjoining single storey outbuilding, 5 windows, with
octagonal gable stack and large off-centre through-eaves
dormer. Coped linking wall has segmental pointed gateway under
a shouldered gable.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3200885961

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Riverdale House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15616218

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair