Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3386NW RUTLAND PARK
784-1/26/633 (North East side)
No.8
Sheffield High School for Girls

GV II

House, now part of Sheffield High School for Girls (qv).
c1875, with mid C20 additions. Rock-faced stone with ashlar
dressings and slate roofs with various stacks. Tudor Revival
style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, quoins, first floor sillband, coped gables.
3 storeys; 2 x 2 windows. Entrance front has to right a gable
with a 2-storey canted bay window topped with a roofed
balcony. On the lower floors, a 2-light stone mullioned cross
casement flanked by single light windows. Pent-roofed balcony
has 3 shouldered openings and pierced balustrades, and coped
gables ending in pedestals topped with ball finials. Above the
balcony, a triangular 4-light window with stone mullions.
Entrance bay, to left, has deep machicolated and crenellated
parapet. On the upper floors, a stone mullioned cross casement
flanked by single light windows. Below, a chamfered
flat-headed doorway with recessed half-glazed Tudor arched
door with mullioned overlight. To its left, a small single
window. Right return has a large external side wall stack.
Garden front has 2 gables flanked by pedestals with ball
finials. To left a square 2-storey bay window with crenellated
parapet and a 3-light stone mullioned cross casement on each
floor. Above, in the gable, a 3-light stone mullioned window
with moulded surround and stepped head. To right, a canted 2
storey bay window with crenellated parapet and a stone
mullioned cross casement on each floor, flanked by single
light windows. Above, a 2-light stone mullioned window. Right
gable has an external stack, flanked by single light windows
on the lower floors and above by a single window to left.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3349886573

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26682931

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover