Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38SW BEAUCHIEF DRIVE
784-1/9/72 (North West side)
28/06/73 Stable block 100m west of Beauchief
Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
BEAUCHIEF DRIVE
Main stable block to Beauchief Hall)

GV II

Stable block, now offices. Dated 1667, remodelled 1836, with
late C20 alterations. Rear range late C18. Coursed squared
stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate, artificial slate
and stone slate roofs with single ridge and external rear wall
stacks. Quoins, coped gables. Openings have stone lintels and
surrounds.
EXTERIOR: main block, 2 storeys; 4 window range. L-plan. To
left, projecting wing with ramped coped shaped gable topped
with corniced square dovecote with weathervane. Gable has a
full height round-headed recess with a single 12 pane sash on
each floor and above them, a clock. Block to right has three
12 pane sashes under shouldered shaped gables with finials.
Below, 3 similar windows. Between the pair to left, a C19
6-panel door, and above it, 3 masks, one of them reset, and a
datestone inscribed "Edward Pegge AD 1667". Another stone
inscribed "BB / PB". Left return has a projecting centre with
a ramped shaped coped gable with finial and a full height
round-headed recess with a 12 pane sash on each floor. On the
ground floor, on either side, a 12 pane sash.
Rear elevation has four 12 pane sashes and below, mainly C20
fenestration. At the rear, barns and stables on 3 sides of a
courtyard. Single storey stable range, to north, has
artificial slate and stone slate roofs. To left, a board door
flanked by single blocked doors, and to right, a 12 pane sash
flanked by single board doors with overlights. 2 storey barn
range, to west, has a central barn door opening with ashlar
jambs and wooden lintel. On either side, 2 breathers, the
upper left one enlarged and glazed. To right again, an
unglazed 2-light casement, and below, a blocked door and
window with a common wooden lintel, and to their right, 2
doorways with chamfered ashlar surrounds, the right one
larger. To left, an unglazed 2-light casement and below, a C20
garage door with concrete lintel. At the rear, central barn
doors and 4 square pitch holes. To left, 3 unglazed openings.
To right, 2 unglazed windows. South gable has a square window
on each floor, the lower one blocked, and the upper unglazed
one with a pitching eye above it. Single storey lean-to range,
to south, has 3 stable doors and 3 small casements. At the
rear, 2 partly blocked windows with a pitching eye above each
of them.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3280581451

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561194

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