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Edmund Road Drill Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in City, Sheffield

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3719 / 53°22'18"N

Longitude: -1.4672 / 1°28'1"W

OS Eastings: 435545

OS Northings: 386243

OS Grid: SK355862

Mapcode National: GBR 9HP.Z2

Mapcode Global: WHDDP.FHKX

Plus Code: 9C5W9GCM+P4

Entry Name: Edmund Road Drill Hall

Listing Date: 20 December 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1270723

English Heritage Legacy ID: 457542

ID on this website: 101270723

Location: Highfield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2

County: Sheffield

Electoral Ward/Division: City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sheffield

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Sheffield St Mary, Bramall Lane

Church of England Diocese: Sheffield

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Description



SHEFFIELD

SK38NE EDMUND ROAD
784-1/6/304 (West side)
20/12/78 Edmund Road Drill Hall

GV II

Drill hall, now garage and workshops. 1878-79. By ME Hadfield
and Sons, with internal structure by Andrew Handyside of
Derby. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled plain
tile and corrugated iron roofs. Tudor Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, string course, coped
gables and parapet. 2 storeys plus 3-stage tower; 10 window
range. Front windows have stone mullions.
Off-centre entrance tower has string courses, machicolated
panelled sides and octagonal corner turrets, crenellated
parapet and a coped corner stack. Pointed arched entrance with
dummy portcullis, wrought-iron gates and raised hoodmould.
Above, a segment-headed window flanked by flat-headed windows
set lower. Above again, a recessed panel with coat of arms. To
left, a 2 storey gabled block with 2 mullioned windows above
and 2 cross-mullioned windows below. To its left, a hipped
single storey addition with a canted bay window. To right, a
2-storey range with off-centre external stack. To its left, a
single window with a mullioned window to right and a 6-pane
cross mullioned window to left. Below, 2 cross mullion windows
flanked to left by a segmental pointed door with overlight. To
the right of the stack, 3 cross mullioned windows on each
floor. Right return has a smaller external stack flanked by
single plain sashes, and to right, 4 similar sashes. Below,
mainly mid C20 windows and doors.
Main hall, at rear, has clerestory with blocked windows. Left
return, 13 bays, has blind arcades with pointed arches and
towards the left, a gabled 2 storey wing. Right return has
mainly segment-headed windows and doors and to right, a
cross-wing with mainly late C20 fenestration.
INTERIOR: hall, approx. 50 x 30m, has shallow arched cast-iron
lattice trusses bearing on internal brick buttresses linked by
shallow pointed arches. A late work of Andrew Handyside.


Listing NGR: SK3554586243

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