Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3587SW HIGH STREET 784-1/24/428 (North West side) 16/08/94 Nos.13-23 (odd) Former Sheffield Telegraph and Star building

GV II

Formerly known as: Kemsley House HIGH STREET. Newspaper offices, now offices and shops. 1916, restored c1985. By Gibbs, Flockton & Teather. For the Sheffield Telegraph and Star. Faience front, now painted. Roofs not visible. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 5 window range. Windows are mainly metal framed glazing bar casements. Central block has the first floor divided by pilasters with festoons under a dentilled cornice with breaks. Three 3-light windows divided by Doric columns under heavily moulded transoms. Above them, segment-headed Diocletian windows with shaped keystones and roundels in the spandrels. Narrower end bays have a single window with moulded lintel and cornice, and above it, a single smaller window with moulded surround. Returns have a similar 3-light window with common moulded cornice and central segmental pediment. Above it, a flat-headed 3-light window with central scroll keystone. Attic has recessed central and outer bays defined by pilasters under a moulded cornice and blocking course. In the projecting bays, a 3-light flat-headed window. Each return has a small 6-pane window. Above again, central square lantern with diagonal buttresses and festoons, and dentilled cornice with corner breaks. On each side, a 3-light window divided by Doric columns. Concave sided leaded tent roof with a clock dial on each side. Above a moulded cornice, a square leaded dome with finial. Ground floor has 5 large segment-arched opening with scroll keystones under a moulded cornice. Each has a late C20 shopfront under a glazing bar Diocletian window. Left return, to York Street, has to left a low 2 storey block with 5 similar smaller arched openings under a moulded cornice. Higher fifth bay has on the first floor a single window with scroll keystone and pediment. To right, a narrower bay with a round window above and an altered window below. Canted corner has three 3-light windows and below, a late C20 entrance. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 455).

Listing NGR: SK3550187472

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