Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3587NW PARADISE SQUARE 784-1/19/567 (South side) 01/05/52 Nos.1-15 (Odd)

GV II*

Terrace of 8 houses, now offices. c1771; No 11 dated 1787. Late C19 alterations. Built for Thomas Broadbent. Brick with ashlar and brick dressings with slate roofs and 7 gable and 2 ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: plinths, ramped coped parapets, coped gables. Central block has moulded cornice; other houses have brick dentilled eaves, that to 11 larger and more elaborate. 3 storeys; 18 window range, arranged 3:3:6:3:3. First floor windows are 12 pane sashes, second floor windows 9 pane sashes, 12 pane to No.1. All windows have brick flat arches. Projecting central block, 6 windows, has an off-centre doorcase with eared architrave and semi-pediment. Fielded 6-panel door and overlight. To its right, a 12 pane sash. Beyond, on either side, doorcases with panelled pilasters, reeded friezes and cornices, and fielded 5-panel doors. Beyond again, single 12 pane sashes. On either side, houses with doorcases with eared architraves and cornices, and fielded 6-panel doors, flanked to right by two 12 pane sashes. Left house has a bronze tablet recording a visit by John Wesley, 1779. Beyond again, house to left has similar doorcase and fenestration. To right, end house has central 12 pane sash flanked to left by a doorcase with pilasters and cornice, and C20 fielded 6-panel door. To right, a similar doorcase with half-glazed door and overlight, and to its right, a 12 pane sash. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 455).

Listing NGR: SK3530787556

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)