Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3587SW ST JAMES' ROW
784-1/24/678 (West side)
28/06/73 Nos.1, 3 AND 5

GV II

Includes: Nos.2, 4 AND 6 CHURCH STREET.
Office building with ground floor shops. c1880, restored and
with alterations late C20. Brick with ashlar ground floor and
dressings, and renewed steep pitched hipped and gabled slate
roofs with wrought-iron finials and crests. Single coped side
wall stack. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, cornices and sillbands to each floor,
arcaded balustrade. 3 and 4 storeys plus attics; 6 x 3 window
range. Windows are mainly stone mullioned cross casements,
some of them with panel tracery.
East front has a canted off-centre 3 storey oriel window with
a 3-light window on each floor, the attic level windows being
single lancets under gables. On each side, a 3-light window.
Beyond, to right, 2 shouldered single lancets. To left, 2
traceried 2-light windows. Above, similar fenestration. Above
again, 4 gabled dormers with pairs of lancets. At either end,
a polygonal oriel window, 3 stages, topped with a spire. Left
one has traceried stone windows, right one simpler and plainer
windows. Ground floor has an off-centre Tudor arched entrance
with projecting gable and cusped doorway with shafts and panel
tracery. To right, a 4-centred arched doorway flanked by
single larger arches with C20 shop windows. To left, a wider
elliptical arch with C20 shop window.
Left return, to Church Street, has a slightly recessed centre
with a traceried 2-light window on the upper floors and 3
gables with 2 pairs of lancets. Right bay has similar
fenestration. Left bay has 2 tall single lancets on each
floor. Ground floor has three 4-centred arched openings with
C20 shop windows and doors. Right return, 4 storeys, has 4
cross mullioned windows, 2 and 3 lights, on each upper floor,
and 4 dormers with double lancets. Ground floor has two
4-centred arched openings and to right, 2 pointed doors.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3534587442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560999

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings